You accomplish step three by returning a CGI header that contains the "application/pdf" MIME type. The browser handles the rest.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:49 PM, citress <citr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, the use case here is for report generation. I would like to be > able to submit a GWT form to a servlet that will generate the report, > and upon form submission, pop-up a new browser window containing the > PDF report in it. > > I have read that the easiest way to do this is to POST the form to the > servlet, generate the report, put the report into the user's > HttpSession, return a token that identifies the report in the session > back to the client, and then open a pop-up window issuing a GET > request with the token. However this approach would require me to > perform session cleanup as generating a lot of reports can bloat one's > session. > > I would prefer to be able to (1) pop-up a window (maybe display a > "Loading..." message), (2) POST the form to the servlet, and (3) on > the callback of this request, change the content of the window to > display the response from the request. > > Is this at all possible?? I can't figure out how to do step (3). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
