[Seaside] DocumentHandler

[Esteban Maringolo]

I am using both BS3 and BS4 (in a newer application).
In both cases using Torsten's wrapper:

BS3: https://github.com/astares/Seaside-Bootstrap
BS4: https://github.com/astares/Seaside-Bootstrap4

Regards!

Esteban A. Maringolo

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:47 AM Annick Fron <list at afceurope.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Esteban,
>
>         This is the solution that I will use, thank you all for your answers !
>
>         For your records, I just use the cairo library to draw the PDF.
>
>         By the way, is anybody using the Bootstrap library with seaside ?
>
>         Annick
>
>
> > Le 2 juin 2020 à 13:47, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > If instead of setting a callback on an anchor, you set a document, it
> > will be treated slightly different.
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > You can do something like:
> >
> > html anchor
> >  document: documentContents mimeType:  ( Seaside.WAMimeType main:
> > 'application' sub: 'pdf' ) fileName: 'YourFile.pdf';
> >  with: 'Download PDF'
> >
> > This will be handled differently to a regular action continuation of a
> > callback and will trigger the download immediately, also the document
> > will be returned as a response to never expire.
> >
> > In some cases you want to use `document:` and in others it could be
> > more flexible to use a regular `respond:` from the
> > WACurrentRequestContext (e.g. if the decision on the file format or
> > other things are deep down in the logic, away from the anchor).
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > WACurrentRequestContext value respond: [:response |
> >  response
> >    attachmentWithFileName: self exportedFilename , '.pdf';
> >    doNotCache;
> >    contentType: ( Seaside.WAMimeType main: 'application' sub: 'pdf' );
> >    binary;
> >    nextPutAll: pdfContents;
> >    respond
> > ]
> >
> > Or directly pass an instance of WAMimeDocument to the response.
> >
> > WACurrentRequestContext value respond: [:response |
> >  response document: aWAMimeDocument
> > ]
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Esteban A. Maringolo
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 6:20 AM Annick Fron <list at afceurope.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, I would like to serve a custom dynamically generated PDF file, what is the best option ? Use a DocumentHandler ?
> >> If yes how ?
> >>
> >> Annick
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