[Seaside] Serving pictures from the image

Jens Pall jens at axonspace.com
Thu Jan 25 18:04:16 UTC 2007


Bany, Michel wrote:
> 
>> Regarding the files, I am looking for a way to serve binary 
>> data from directly within the image itself, not using files 
>> on the external filesystem. I'm planning on using Magma as 
>> the persistent repository for everything and don't want to 
>> rely on stuff out on the filesystem, hence I need a way to 
>> load and serve my images completely from within squeak.
> 
> You may want something like this
> 
> 	(html anchor)
> 		document: aByteArray 
> 		mimeType: 'application/msword' 
> 		fileName: 'report.doc'
> 

Yes, this looks promising.

But how do I load the document from disk into aByteArray? I think I can 
do this using a web form, but I want to be able to load it directly from 
the filesystem (used in a batch load later).

JP


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