That being said, I've seen *PLENTY* of code that does things like this that don't close the stream, and as far as I could tell it was well-behaved code otherwise... I suspect the container will close the stream at the end of the request processing cycle if it's still open, but I always close it to be certain. Better to be explicit :)
Frank
David Johnson wrote:
Wow, excellent. Thanks! is tehre anything IU need to do to close my PrintWriter in the Action class? right now I have
response.setContentType("application/pdf"); response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline" ); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
socket.write(out); // I get my PDF through thtis socket
do I need to close() it explicitly?
On 5/12/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Return null. That's it (seriously!) Null effectively means "do not forward to anything, the response is completely formed".
Frank
David Johnson wrote:
Okay, I've got it opening the second browser (finally got back to it)
using the target="_new" in the form declaration, but here's the real
problem
I'm in the action class, and I can can work on the response using
response.setContentType("application/pdf"); response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline" );
BUT, when I get to the end of my action class, what do I return? I cant
return to a JSP page because I've set the content type to be PDF (or
excel)
So, instead of
mapping.findForward("success");
what can I do?
On 5/12/05, *Frank W. Zammetti* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Ugh, I always forget the simple target attribute! Absolutely agreed, that's probably the best approach.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
On Thu, May 12, 2005 11:16 am, David Johnson said:
whoa that's simple. I'm trying that first!!!! Thanks
One things though, I'll have to set the "target" conditionally,
only when
the user clicks "PDF" or "EXCEL" since I dont **always** want it
opening a
new window...
function setTarget(target) { document.forms[0].target=target; }
On 5/12/05, Aladin Alaily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi Dave,
This is pretty straightforward. In browser "a", you have a
button that
says:
"Export to PDF"
The code would look like this:
<html:form action="/exportToPdf.do" target="_NEW"> <submit name="export" value="Export to PDF"> </html>
When the user clicks on the button, the action "exportToPdf.do"
opens an
ServletOutputStream and writes whatever you want. The headers
are also
set to the content-type you want and the format you want (inline or attachment).
Aladin
Hey all
is it possible to forme my struts app to open up a second browser
window
for the purpose of streaming a different content type (like a pdf
file)
into
it while maintaining the page in the original browser?
Essentially, I have a nicely rendered HTML report in browser
"a" and
when
the user clicks "export to PDF" or "export to excel" I want a NEW
browser
to pop up into which I will send the response with the headerType
set to
the
appropriate type.
the generation of the XL and PDF is handled for me, but the
app flow
is
where Im foggy.
anyone done this?
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