I came across this thread (see at the bottom) in my ww mail archive, which exactly matches a requirement I have to implement.
Is the answer from Rickard still the prefered way to achieve a saving of a content (e.g. word document)? since I didn't find the BinaryResult action explained by Rickard is there another action/way already implemented in webwork to achieve this behaviour? As always: thanks for the help ;-) Cheers -Paolo >Subject: Re: [Webwork-user] action that returns document other than >.html > > >Taavi Tiirik wrote: > >> What would be the best way to implement an action that returns >> something else than plain .html? I need to return ms word >> document that could be then opened or saved to disk. >> >> Anybody cares to point me in the right direction? > >You could write an action that performs this for you. The action would >do this: >* allow a content type to be set >* output bytes taken from a particular property > >This action would then be used as the result view for your word >retrieval action. I.e. in your views.properties you'd have this: >wordfile.action=WordFile >wordfile.result=BinaryResult.action?contentType=<word file >type>&data=fileData > >In WordFile.java you'd then put a method getFileData() that returns >byte[] which the BinaryResult action will get and output. > >IMHO it might be a good idea to put this BinaryResult action in the >standard action repository in WebWork, since it seems like a >common need. > >/Rickard > >-- >Rickard �berg >Software Development Specialist >xlurc - Xpedio Link�ping Ubiquitous Research Center >Author of "Mastering RMI" >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >Webwork-user mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webwork-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
