Hello all,
I'm having a problem with obtaining a PDF from a webservice as an
attachment. The first time I call the web service, everything works as
it is expected, but the second time, the client side seems to hang on
reading the file. Here's the code:
Server:
public javax.activation.DataHandler getProduct(java.lang.String name,
java.lang.String datasetName)
throws java.rmi.RemoteException {
// Stuff to determine 'product' snipped.
javax.activation.DataHandler dh = new javax.activation.DataHandler(
new javax.activation.FileDataSource(product));
log.debug("Content type is: ["+dh.getContentType()+"]");
org.apache.axis.MessageContext msgCtx =
org.apache.axis.MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
org.apache.axis.Message response=msgCtx.getResponseMessage();
response.getAttachmentsImpl().setSendType(
org.apache.axis.attachments.Attachments.SEND_TYPE_MIME);
org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentPart attachment =
new org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentPart(dh);
response.addAttachmentPart(attachment);
log.debug("Returning product "+name);
}
Client:
javax.activation.DataHandler data =
service.getProduct(myForm.getProductName(),
myForm.getName());
if (null == data) {
log.debug("No product obtained from web service.");
return null;
}
log.debug("Obtaining attachment for product ["+myForm.getProductName()+"]");
java.io.InputStream is = data.getInputStream();
I am using axis-1_2RC2, javamail-1.3.2, jaf-1.0.2. It works fine if
the file is a PNG or a GIF or a HTML document instead. The PDF is of
course bigger than all of these, I also have this problem with a
zipped postscript file (is not unpacked, is just sent as a gzipped
file).
I'd be very grateful if someone could give me some pointers.
Ian.
