Well, the thread is still open ;-). Hopefully the tapestry framework
developers will see the "parameterized" streaming pattern to be equally
important as HTML (and not some sort of hack/gimmick that needs, as you put it,
to "abort the goodness").
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:07 PM, Chris Mylonas <ch...@opencsta.org>
wrote:
I was wondering if you'd want to get the last word in Net Dawg ;)
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Net Dawg <net.d...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Thanks Chris. The intent of this question was to get a start toward
> streaming "pure content" - not just text, but also (and especially PDF),
> XML, imagery - whatever - anything except HTML. My solution finally was to
> mimic a previously coded button press on an HTML page. Why? Because that
> is where I get all the session variables set (search, query etc) to
> properly construct the PDF content. Then I hid the button and launched
> the "pure content" page as a pagelink, instead, as follows:
>
> <t:pagelink page="pdf/Index" target="_blank">PDF</t:pagelink>
>
> Rather convoluted, but gets the job done....and, yes, hardly a simpler
> hello world now...(this workaround would be more useful to say "Hello
> Chris" - after, say, selecting from an HTML list of users)
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 4:27 PM, Chris Mylonas <ch...@opencsta.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> For future noobs, this is not a simpler hello world, it's making tapestry
> respond with text only, no template, nothing but pure text.
>
> I had to do this today and this thread caught my eye last month.
>
> In the standard tapestry 5.3.7 archetype, my Contact.java looks like this.
>
>
> package org.example.pages;
>
> import org.apache.tapestry5.StreamResponse;
> import org.apache.tapestry5.util.TextStreamResponse;
>
> public class Contact {
>
> StreamResponse onActivate(){
> return new TextStreamResponse("text/plain","some plain old text -
> no .tml file, no nothing. plain old text - yay!");
> }
> }
>
> I wouldn't describe it as a simpler hello world at all because you're
> making tapestry end it's goodness prematurely. Like learning how to write
> a program and the first statement in main() you learn is exit(1);
>
