Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Turner
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:33:25 -0500, Dale Newfield wrote: Disposition means "OK, what do I do with this thing?" If the answer is "save it", THEN the question of "as what?" arises. Stating the filename without first answering the "display it inline" vs. "save it" question is ambiguous and not

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-22 Thread Oscar Calderon
Thanks for the aclaration, really i didn't realize about the struts documentation's version.I imagine that the better is to add the "attachment " to avoid problems. El 1/22/2010 9:33 AM, Dale Newfield escribió: Stephen Turner wrote: Oscar's syntax is described in the Struts docs: http://strut

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-22 Thread Dale Newfield
Stephen Turner wrote: Oscar's syntax is described in the Struts docs: http://struts.apache.org/2.0.8/docs/stream-result.html It's been updated in http://struts.apache.org/2.1.8.1/docs/stream-result.html Too bad the docs are versioned like that so that bad documents don't "go away" once they'v

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Turner
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:59:52 -0500, Dale Newfield wrote: Glad you were able to get that working. Where did you find the documentation that suggested this part of your stream result? Oscar wrote: filename="nameoffile.xls" The filename can also be specified, but the only valid "content

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-22 Thread Dale Newfield
Glad you were able to get that working. Where did you find the documentation that suggested this part of your stream result? Oscar wrote: filename="nameoffile.xls" The filename can also be specified, but the only valid "contentDisposition" values are "inline" or "attachment". So you wa

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-21 Thread Oscar
Thanks Dale. I searched a little bit about it and i solve the problem creating a InputStream field in my action, then adding a stream result type as you said, like this: application/vnd.ms-excel nameOfInputStreamFieldFromYourAction filename="nameoffile.xls" 1024 2010/1/21 Dale Newfi

Re: Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-21 Thread Dale Newfield
Oscar Calderon wrote: a question about downloading files from struts action. I would suggest using the stream result type rather than hand-constructing the servlet response. In either case, though, you want to look into the "contentDisposition" result parameter. Probably you want a value s

Problem with excel download file from Action (S 2.1.8)

2010-01-21 Thread Oscar Calderon
Hi to all, i wanna ask you a question about downloading files from struts action. Actually i'm working on application that has some jasperreports, where by default my action prints as PDF, and it works fine, but now i'm trying to serve an excel file, so i'm using the next code: byte[] arrStrea