Serving a file

Hello,

I need to generate some file based reports (Excel). Some of these
reports are generated on the fly, some others (the long ones) will be
pre-generated.

For the reports generated on the fly (when users click a button), how
do I set a page type to be something like:  application/vnd.ms-excel
(extension xml or csv). ?

For the pre generated reports (static files), is that a good practice
to 'record' the files with a sub class of WAFileLibrary?


Thanks,
Thierry
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2010/10/17 Thierry Thelliez <[hidden email]>:
> Hello,
>
> I need to generate some file based reports (Excel). Some of these
> reports are generated on the fly, some others (the long ones) will be
> pre-generated.
>
> For the reports generated on the fly (when users click a button), how
> do I set a page type to be something like:  application/vnd.ms-excel
> (extension xml or csv). ?

Which version of Seaside?

> For the pre generated reports (static files), is that a good practice
> to 'record' the files with a sub class of WAFileLibrary?

No, in general not.

Cheers
Philippe
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Thierry,

On 17 Oct 2010, at 18:11, Thierry Thelliez wrote:

> I need to generate some file based reports (Excel). Some of these
> reports are generated on the fly, some others (the long ones) will be
> pre-generated.
>
> For the reports generated on the fly (when users click a button), how
> do I set a page type to be something like:  application/vnd.ms-excel
> (extension xml or csv). ?


Some time ago I posed the same question on this list and Julian Fritzel helped me to this answer:

servePdf
        self requestContext respond: [ :response |
                response
                        document: self getPdfBytes mimeType: 'application/pdf' fileName: 'seaside-test.pdf';
      doNotCache ]

HTH,

Sven

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Philippe,

>
> Which version of Seaside?

I am on 2.8, but thinking of moving to 3.0 soon.


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Sven,

This looks great.


Thanks,
Thierry

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