> I don't understand why you cannot directly use the PDF-generator servlet, by
> adding a dedicated mapping in your web.xml.
It needs to go through the request processor, to check if the user is
logged in
or not.
> perform() method in any action MAY return an ActionForward, but CAN return
> null if it has build the response for the client browser. This is commonly
> used for PDF or Excel generation, where they're is no need for a JSP.
It writes the binary value(pdf) into the response.getOutputStream,
with content-Type "application/pdf" und with content-length set.
But in the browser nothing can be seen, even though the pdf that gets
created correctly,
and the browser is loading the pdf-plugin.
Any ideas ?
marcus
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> perform() method in any action MAY return an ActionForward, but CAN return
> null if it has build the response for the client browser. This is commonly
> used for PDF or Excel generation, where they're is no need for a JSP.
>
> I don't understand why you cannot directly use the PDF-generator servlet, by
> adding a dedicated mapping in your web.xml.
>
> Nico.
>
> > Hi, I am using Struts 1.02 and got the following Problem:
> > I need to create a JSP where u can select to create a pdf or excel file.
> >
> > The problem is, I didn't programm the Action to create the file, a
> > colleague did.
> > So I need some way to call his Servlet. I tried to map directly to it,
> > that did not work. So I wrote an Action that called a method to create
> > this pdf / excel file,
> > depending on the parameters given.
> >
> > The problem is, that after this method there is no forward anymore, as
> > the control is given to the servlet
> > to create the file, and thats it. But the
> > public ActionForward perform(
> > ActionMapping mapping,
> > ActionForm form,
> > HttpServletRequest request,
> > HttpServletResponse response)
> > {
> >
> > needs some forward.
> > For the moment I wrote "return null" but imho thats no prober solution.
> >
> > Maybe you got an idea.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > marcus
>
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