Can someone help with this??? Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content

[le...@bankone.com]

Are there any struts gurus here that can help me? I did not get a single
answer to this question. If there was a solution to this question, it
would help many people that are working with portlets, like me, who can
use JSP and cannot use servlets durectly to stream binary content to the
browser. Thanks.

----------------- Forwarded by Leonard Reinstein/NY/ONE on 07/23/2003 10:34
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From:   Leonard Reinstein on 07/22/2003 09:18 PM
To:     struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
cc:

Subject:        Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please
help.


I would like to be able to display/stream the PDF file in the browser and
use the <bean:write> tag in the JSP to acomplish that.
Say I have a form bean that has a byte array field, and I want the jsp to
specify the contentType as "application/pdf" and just have the bean:write
tag, such as:

<bean:write name="mybean" property="pdfcontent"/>

Is this possible to achieve? Are there any hacks/tricks to make it work in
a JSP when the form bean has the binary content field?

When I do it with with the byte array attribute, it just displays the
address of the array in memory (possibly calls toString()). If I make the
field of type String and convert the byte array to String in the
controller as follows: str = new String(byteArray),  it does not get
converted correctly and the browser hangs.

I know the best way to do it is to have a servlet. But I need to do it in
a JSP because of certain limitations of my application. Please help.

Thanks.







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RE: Can someone help with this??? Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content

[Mike Jasnowski <mj...@bea.com>]

I think in a previous post someone mentioned setting the content-type of the
page to be that of a PDF document, then you write the stream back to the
client from the JSP.  The client will handle launching the appropritae
viewer.

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Subject: Can someone help with this??? Using bean:write to
display/stream PDF content



Are there any struts gurus here that can help me? I did not get a single
answer to this question. If there was a solution to this question, it
would help many people that are working with portlets, like me, who can
use JSP and cannot use servlets durectly to stream binary content to the
browser. Thanks.

----------------- Forwarded by Leonard Reinstein/NY/ONE on 07/23/2003 10:34
AM ---------------------------
From:   Leonard Reinstein on 07/22/2003 09:18 PM
To:     struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
cc:

Subject:        Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please
help.


I would like to be able to display/stream the PDF file in the browser and
use the <bean:write> tag in the JSP to acomplish that.
Say I have a form bean that has a byte array field, and I want the jsp to
specify the contentType as "application/pdf" and just have the bean:write
tag, such as:

<bean:write name="mybean" property="pdfcontent"/>

Is this possible to achieve? Are there any hacks/tricks to make it work in
a JSP when the form bean has the binary content field?

When I do it with with the byte array attribute, it just displays the
address of the array in memory (possibly calls toString()). If I make the
field of type String and convert the byte array to String in the
controller as follows: str = new String(byteArray),  it does not get
converted correctly and the browser hangs.

I know the best way to do it is to have a servlet. But I need to do it in
a JSP because of certain limitations of my application. Please help.

Thanks.







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in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in
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