Thanks a lot Andy! It works like a charm. Now the filename can be
manipulated as well. Perfect!
Best,
Lars
2014-08-21 17:10 GMT+02:00 Andy Bunce <bunce.a...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Lars,
> You need to return a sequence of two items: (restxq:response,thedata)
> I do something like...
>
> declare
> %rest:path("/download/{$file}")
> function page:download-file($file)
> {
> (download-response("raw",$file), file:read-binary(..))
> };
>
> (:~ headers for download :)
> declare function download-response($method,$filename){
> <restxq:response>
> <output:serialization-parameters>
> <output:method value="{$method}"/>
> </output:serialization-parameters>
> <http:response>
> <http:header name="Content-Disposition"
> value='attachment;filename="{$filename}"'/>
> </http:response>
> </restxq:response>
> };
>
> /Andy
>
>
> On 21 August 2014 15:40, Lars Johnsen <yoon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I came a little closer by making custom http:headers, but I have to
>> confess I'm in deep water here:
>>
>> declare
>> %rest:path("/download/{$file}")
>> function page:download-file($file)
>> {
>> <rest:response>
>> <http:response status="200" message="OK">
>>
>> <http:header name="Content-Disposition" value="Attachment"/>
>> <http:header name="filename" value="{$file}"/>
>> </http:response>
>> </rest:response>
>>
>> };
>>
>> This function do trigger a download of a file with the appropriate file
>> name (=$file) containing the text OK. If I just could find somewhere in
>> this code to put the contents of file, it should solve the problem.
>>
>> Best,
>> Lars
>>
>>
>> 2014-08-21 15:20 GMT+02:00 Lars Johnsen <yoon...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I am using BaseX restxq for accessing a repository from a web browser.
>>> Uploading files works smoothly, but I can't see how to make a download
>>> button work.
>>> For uploading, the recipie on the restxq help page was enough to get it
>>> to work. Is there a corresponding way for making downloading work?
>>> What I have tried is to let BaseX send a html-page containing:
>>>
>>> <form method="get" action="/download/{$file}">
>>> <button type="submit">Download</button>
>>> </form>
>>>
>>> To process this form is the following restfunction
>>>
>>> declare
>>> %rest:path("/download/{$file}")
>>> %output:method("html")
>>> function page:download-file($file) { ... }
>>>
>>> Inside the curly braces, I have tried an <a href..> element and
>>> file:read-binary, but none of them with any success. BaseX complains about
>>> the <a> element, and file:read-binary outputs directly to the browser.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
