Getting "500 Internal Server " error while creating DocumentReference

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Sep 6, 2018, 6:03:09 PM9/6/18

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Issue Summary: I am trying to POST a DocumentReference to cerner fhir server but I keep getting "500 Internal Server Error" , I also went through most of the related topics to it and verified details such as Patient Id, Encounter Id and data. everything seems to be valid for me. Can someone please help me with this in identifying the exact issue?
X-Request-Id : 612cb422eddff8ede876e9d56c7a2a3d
Request : https://fhir-ehr.sandboxcerner.com/dstu2/0b8a0111-e8e6-4c26-a91c-5069cbc6b1ca/DocumentReference (POST)
Request body :

{
"resourceType": "DocumentReference",
"subject": {
"reference": "Patient/4342010"
},
"type": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://loinc.org",
"code": "34840-9"
}
]
},
"author": [
{
"reference": "Practitioner/4464007"
}
],
"indexed": "2015-11-18T18:00:00Z",
"status": "current",
"docStatus": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://hl7.org/fhir/composition-status",
"code": "final"
}
]
},
"description": "Rheumatology Note",
"content": [
{
"attachment": {
"contentType": "application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8",
"data": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang='en'><head><meta charset='UTF-8'/><title>Document</title></head><body><div><p>Testing document api on cerner</p></div></body></html>"
}
}
],
"context": {
"encounter": {
"reference": "Encounter/4027918"
},
"period": {
"end": "2015-08-20T09:10:14Z"
}
}
}

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Sep 6, 2018, 6:25:33 PM9/6/18

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Hi Supresh,

The data that is passed in on the content.attachment.data field has to be base64 encoded.

Thanks,

Madhur

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Sep 6, 2018, 8:15:24 PM9/6/18

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Thank you so much Madhur, It worked.

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