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returning a non-html file as response
I need to return a differnt kind of resposne type. Its an excel file if your curious. I think I understand how to do this with a plain servlet, but I am trying to fit it into the structure of the struts architecture. Can someone explain to me how to do this? In particular, can I just grab the response stream from the response object I get in the execute method and start writing to it. If so, what becomes of the forward I'm supposed to return.
Feel free to inform me of my misuse of the platform if that's the case.
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Re: returning a non-html file as response
Posted by Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>.
chadmichael@excite.com wrote:
> I need to return a differnt kind of resposne type. Its an excel file if your curious. I think I understand how to do this with a plain servlet, but I am trying to fit it into the structure of the struts architecture. Can someone explain to me how to do this? In particular, can I just grab the response stream from the response object I get in the execute method and start writing to it. If so, what becomes of the forward I'm supposed to return.
>
> Feel free to inform me of my misuse of the platform if that's the case.
You might find this helpful too:
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsFileDownload
L.
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Re: returning a non-html file as response
Posted by "Frank W. Zammetti" <fz...@omnytex.com>.
Hi,
If you are writing the response from an Action (which yes, you can do as
you describe), you should return null from execute(). This indicates to
Struts that you have taken responsibility for rendering the response and
no forward should take place, the response should simply be returned as it
exists at that point.
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On Mon, January 23, 2006 1:55 pm, chadmichael@excite.com said:
>
> I need to return a differnt kind of resposne type. Its an excel file if
> your curious. I think I understand how to do this with a plain servlet,
> but I am trying to fit it into the structure of the struts architecture.
> Can someone explain to me how to do this? In particular, can I just grab
> the response stream from the response object I get in the execute method
> and start writing to it. If so, what becomes of the forward I'm supposed
> to return.
>
> Feel free to inform me of my misuse of the platform if that's the case.
>
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