Hi Bill,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"> I can't do anything with request contexts in the image. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>self session</div><div>self requestContext</div><div>etc</div><div><br></div><div>won't work in the debugger as they are dynamic variables which use the exception mechanism to retrieve their value (search for references to WACurrentRequestContext)</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are in the debugger and you need the session or the request context you can either follow the stack trace until you find a variable holding the session or request context or just add the following code to the method you are debugging and resume the debugger:</div>
<div><br></div><div>| theSession theRequestContext |</div><div><br></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div><br></div><div>theSession := self session.</div><div>theRequestContext := self requestContext.</div><div>self halt.</div>
<div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>I don't understand what you have been doing wrong. "WACurrenrRequestContext
value" will always be available if you are inside a callback or rendering -
virtually anywhere in Seaside. Wherever you have a WAComponent you can also
send #session to it.
On 15 March 2012 18:34, Schwab,Wilhelm K <<a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside" target="_blank">bschwab at anest.ufl.edu</a>> wrote:
><i> I am trying to create anchors that will "dynamically" serve pdf
</i>><i> documents. The archive in question is way too big for a FileLibrary and a
</i>><i> separate web server is probably overkill since I intend to do all of this
</i>><i> locally and would rather not have to run Apache on the machines in question
</i>><i> (security paranoia or laziness, take your pick<g>) . So, I was hoping to
</i>><i> create mime documents on the fly.
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</i>><i> I found suggestions such as:
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</i>><i> component session requestContext respond:[ :response |
</i>><i> response
</i>><i> document:self getPdfBytes
</i>><i> mimeType: 'application/pdf'
</i>><i> fileName: 'seaside-test.pdf';
</i>><i> doNotCache
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</i>><i> I don't see #getPdfBytes, but suspect I can wing it given the file names
</i>><i> in anchors.
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</i>><i> The problem is that everything I ask for a requestContext feigns
</i>><i> ignorance. I can't even get #session because of the same error. I am
</i>><i> using Seaside 3 from the Pharo 1.3 image and Seaside downstream project.
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</i>><i> Any suggestions?
</i>><i>
</i>><i> Bill</i></pre>
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