On Mon, 22 May 2017 09:55:12 -0700
Amelia Ireland <airel...@lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hello Dancers,
>
> Is it possible to print web page output directly using Dancer2?
>
> I'm using Text::CSV_XS to output DB data as CSV like so:
>
> while ( my $row = $sth->fetch ) {
> $csv->print ( $io, $row );
> }
>
> where $io is a file handle, socket, etc.
>
> At the moment, I'm creating a temp file, writing the data, and then
> using send_file to dispatch the data. Ideally I'd like to just print
> it straight to the web output, but (e.g.) setting $io to *STDOUT does
> not work, and there is no serialiser for csv or plain text.
>
> Is there a shortcut that I'm missing?
You set the content type and return your output as a string.
Something like this:
get '/data.csv' => sub {
my $output = '';
while ( my $row = $sth->fetch ) {
# TODO: append to $output instead of printing
}
content_type 'text/csv';
return $output;
};
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C. Chad Wallace, B.Sc.
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