try something like this; it will open the pdf viewer in your browser
public class ShowDocumentAction extends BasicAction {
public ActionForward perform(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
try {
Object object = session.getAttribute("BlobObject");
if (object != null) {
DocumentDetailModel detailModel =
(DocumentDetailModel)object;
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos); // Using the
library of Bruno Lowagie to convert xml to PDF
Parser parser =
ParserFactory.makeParser("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
parser.setDocumentHandler(new SAXiTextHandler(document));
ByteArrayInputStream stream = new
ByteArrayInputStream(detailModel.getDetail()); // this is an array of byte
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(stream);
parser.parse(inputSource);
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(baos.size());
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
baos.writeTo(out);
out.flush();
}
}
catch (Exception ex) {
}
return "";
}
}
Best regards,
Thierry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Problem With Forwarding to a non-HTML file
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Woon) wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I guess I should also have added that PDF files are ocassionally
> > generated on the fly., in which case there's really nothing to redirect
or
> > forward to. Is there anything I can do in these situations?
>
> The Inland Revenue site in the UK does this, if you fancy filling
> in a dummy tax return to see how it works... :-)
> http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/
> If you are interested you must go to the Self assessment then after
> creating a new forms log-in, select download and print locally.
>
> When I used to do CGI I used to do things with the extra path
> to fool the browser: /cgi-bin/genpdf.exe/docname.pdf
> I think maybe something similar is possible with servlets.
>
> Duncan Harris
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