This pretty much seems an issue with memory usage.
You could try to use an asynch service call to schedule/submit the
service call to create the PDF in the runtime/output folder: I've
implemented a generic service for this some time ago (but I don't
remember the name right now). If you are interested and you can't find
it... let me know and I will research and provide you more information.
Jacopo
Adrian Crum wrote:
I'm having trouble using the ScreenFop view handler.
I'm trying to get the Entity Reference Chart to output to PDF. I created
a Freemarker template that generates the correct output. I set up a view
handler:
<view-map name="entityrefReport" type="screenfop"
page="component://webtools/widget/EntityScreens.xml#EntityRefReport"
content-type="application/pdf" encoding="none"/>
When I access that view, the hourglass cursor appears indefinitely. Many
debug.log files are generated - totalling over a GB. After waiting 15 or
20 minutes, I close the browser window, but the rendering process
continues. I have to shut down OFBiz to get it to stop. The debug logs
just contain informational messages - no errors. No errors in the
console log either.
I know the template is generating correct FO output because I can switch
to this view handler:
<view-map name="entityrefReport" type="screen"
page="component://webtools/widget/EntityScreens.xml#EntityRefReport"/>
and the template's FO output appears in the screen. If I save the
browser's page source to a file, I can convert it manually using the
command-line FOP and it creates a perfect (1000+ page) PDF file. The
entire process takes less than a minute.
So, the individual elements all work fine, but for some reason the
screenfop view handler gets hung up.
Any ideas?
-Adrian
