Hi, Thanks to Richard, Mike and Dale for your help.
I've now got this working. The XML is downloading fine in my development environment. I'll worry about other browsers and formats further downstream. I've used contentType "text/xml" and contentDisposition attachment;filename="myfile.xml" as suggested by Dale. Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sayre [mailto:richardsa...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 May 2009 12:41 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts newbie - Advice on file downloading Hi, I have the following defined: <action name="generatePdf" class="com.abc.ReportAction" method="generateReport"> <result name="success" type="stream"> <param name="contentType">application/pdf</param> <param name="inputName">fileStream</param> <param name="contentDisposition">filename="Report.pdf"</param> <param name="bufferSize">1024</param> </result> My action lookks like this public String generateReport() { //use api to build PDF //the api takes an output stream //so at the end of my method i have an output stream containg the file... //bout is my output stream //file stream is a member of my Action (referenced in the <param name="inputName">fileStream</param> param) //fileStream is an InputStream fileStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bout.toByteArray()); return SUCCESS; } You will have to parameterize the XML to handle multiple file types: <param name="contentType">${mimeType}</param> Which you will set in your action. Same goes for the other parameters. I'm not sure how to get the browser to display a save dialog, I think it has to do with the mime type. I think application/octet-stream will work. -Rich On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Steve <st...@sjlt.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm a Struts 2 newbie and I need to write some code to download dynamically > created files in various formats (csv, txt and xml). I want the user to be > presented with a "Save As" dialog regardless of file type. > > > > Does anyone have any advice / URL's for example code? I have found the > "Result Stream" documentation on the Struts site and various code snippets. > But I can't find any good complete examples. > > > > Many Thanks, > > > > Steve > > Steve Higham > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
