[Seaside] Serving non-html dynamically

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

James, Julian,

Thanks a lot: this works like a charm!
I just tested with this example:

servePdf
	self requestContext respond: [ :response |
		response 
			document: self getPdfBytes mimeType: 'application/pdf' fileName: 'seaside-test.pdf';
       		doNotCache ]

I was indeed working in Seaside 3.0.
It keeps on amazing me how deep Seaside really is !

Have a nice weekend.

Sven

On 02 Jul 2010, at 20:20, Julian Fitzell wrote:

> Note that's 2.8. In 3.0 you would call "self requestContext response"
> to get a response object and then use instance-side methods to set it
> up as you want. Or
> 
> self requestContext respond: [ :response | "set up your response here" ]
> 
> You might also like to create a RequestHandler subclass if you are
> doing a lot of this and the URLs are more "REST-like" (rather than
> doing this in a component).
> 
> Julian
> 
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:24 PM, James Foster <Smalltalk at jgfoster.net> wrote:
>> Hi Sven,
>> 
>> I have occasion to return dynamically generated documents that open in Excel. The following gives the general approach (where 'self returnCSV' is in an anchor callback block):
>> 
>> 
>> MyWAComponent>>#'returnCSV'
>> 
>>        | response |
>>        response := WAResponse
>>                document: self asCSV
>>                mimeType: (WAFileLibrary mimetypeFor: 'csv')
>>                fileName: self caption , ' (' , DateAndTime now printString , ').csv'.
>>        response doNotCache.
>>        self session returnResponse: response.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 2, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Does anybody know or can point me to a simple/elegant solution to serving non text/html content dynamically using Seaside ?
>>> 
>>> Say you have a Seaside app that generates dynamic reports in formats like PDF or XLS, how to you generate such an answers ? Serving dynamically generated images like graphs would be another use case.
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> 
>>> Sven
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