<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In trying to answer my own question, I followed the path used to answer content from WAFileLibary.</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">I added an override for #handle: and checked for an 'options' key. If found, a new PDF document is created and answered.</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The document is created correctly, but still is not rendered in the browser. I thought I had paralleled the answer sequence correctly. </span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;">WAFileLibrary >> handle: </span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>aRequestContext respond: [ :response |</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>response</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cacheFor: self cacheDuration;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>document: (self documentForFile: fileName)</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>mimeType: (self mimetypeForFile: fileName) ]</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">vs. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">TSwaFileLibrary</span><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> >> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">handleReport: aRequestContext</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">...</span></div><div><span><div style="font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>aRequestContext respond: [ :response |</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>response</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>document: byteArray</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>mimeType: (self class mimetypeFor: 'PDF') ]</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Uploading a PDF file to the WAFileLibrary subclass and using...</div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://localhost:48199/files/TSwaFileLibrary/TestSimpleReport.pdf</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">...opens the PDF document in the browser, but using my parameter suffixed version...</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://localhost:48199/files/TSwaFileLibrary/Report.pdf?options=assigned|id|system|title&filter=assigned:Bob_N.|status:open</span><br></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">...triggers a file download on the generated PDF file.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;">What is different? Both versions write a PDF content byte array to a response with the same mime type. </span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Is there something else in the response sequence that I need to deal with?</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bob</span></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "bobn@rogers.com" <bobn@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SeasideList <seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:29:54 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Seaside] View PDF in browser<br> </font> <br><div id="yiv1599463521"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The question of how to serve a PDF document has been asked and answered a few times, but not the question of how get the browser to view the PDF without launching a reader app for browsers configured to do that for PDF links. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">For example, if I create a PDF document and load it into my WAFileLibrary subclass, I can reference it with a simple anchor url: ... </font></div><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "><font size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>html anchor u</font><span style="font-size:13px;">rl: TSwaFileLibrary / #TestReportPdf; with: 'PDF Report
File'.</span><br></span></div><div><font size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span><<span class="yiv1599463521nodeTag ">a</span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeAttr yiv1599463521editGroup "> <span class="yiv1599463521nodeName yiv1599463521editable ">href</span>="<span class="yiv1599463521nodeValue yiv1599463521editable ">/files/TSwaFileLibrary/TestReport.pdf</span>"</span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeBracket yiv1599463521editable yiv1599463521insertBefore ">></span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeText yiv1599463521editable "><span class="yiv1599463521 ">PDF Report File</span></span></<span class="yiv1599463521nodeTag ">a</span>></span><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget ">...which, when selected, displays
it in the browser. </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget "><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget ">If I generate the file response...</span></font></div><div><div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>self requestContext respond: [:response |</font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>response </font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>document: byteArray </font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>mimeType: (Seaside.WAFileLibrary mimetypeFor: 'PDF')</font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>fileName: 'IssueReport.PDF']</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">...and use a </font><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">callback...</span><br></div></div></div><div><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif; "><div><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>html anchor callback: [self pdfReport]; with: 'PDF Report Build'.</div></span></div><div><font size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget "><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre;"> </span><a href="/Issues?_s=tkTzO72EQJbWMxF_&_k=SZ5ABAiSyHAfmzFW&79">PDF Report Build</a></span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget ">...I get a PDF reader opening on a file download.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget "><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget ">So, I though be cleaver and build a RESTful url for the report (handy for sending links instead of content) which looked like '/blah blah blah.PDF'...</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:13px;"><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>html anchor</span> <span style="font-size:13px;">url: '/Issues?Report=TEST&filter=assigned:Bob_N.|status:open&filename=IssueReport.PDF'; with: '</span><span style="font-size:13px;">PDF Report
Anchor'</span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;"><span class="yiv1599463521nodeLabelBox yiv1599463521repTarget" style="font-family: sans-serif; "><span class="yiv1599463521Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span><<span class="yiv1599463521nodeTag ">a</span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeAttr yiv1599463521editGroup "> <span class="yiv1599463521nodeName yiv1599463521editable ">href</span>="<span class="yiv1599463521nodeValue yiv1599463521editable ">/Issues?Report=TEST&filter=assigned:Bob_N.|status:open&filename=IssueReport.PDF</span>"</span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeBracket yiv1599463521editable yiv1599463521insertBefore ">></span><span class="yiv1599463521nodeText yiv1599463521editable "><span class="yiv1599463521 ">PDF Report Anchor</span></span></<span class="yiv1599463521nodeTag ">a</span>></span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
">...which also opens a PDF reader on a file download.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Using #target: or WAPopupAnchorTag to open a new browser tab also did not work. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Given that the href="/files... anchor works, it seems like this could work. </span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">I'd be </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">grateful</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> for any suggestions.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">BTW: I'm using
Christian Haider's pdf4smalltalk to build the PDF document. It rocks. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Thanks,</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Bob Nemec</span></span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><br></span></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>seaside mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org"
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