There was another really insane way where you actually decode your image (bytes you've sended back) and produce a lot of 1px sized divs with accordant colors which makes the image :)) But like i said - it's kind of crazy.
On 22 Okt., 07:55, "Robert J. Carr" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ian ... I had a feeling it was going to be complicated, I just > wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. > > Looks like I'm relegated to building complex queries or making two > requests. Thanks again for the time! > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can send bytes back to the client as an RPC response (it's just an > > HTTP request, after all) but the problem is what to do with the bytes > > once you have them. If you're willing to restrict yourself to > > browsers that support data:// URLs, you can send the image back as a > > data:// URL and just drop the result into an img tag. That approach > > excludes many (all?) versions of IE. As far as I know, the only IE > > that _might_ support data:// URLs is IE8. To be fully-compatible, you > > need to forge ahead with your existing approach or, as you say, > > generate a URL via RPC and make the generated URL resolve to the > > desired image. > > > If you want to fool around with the RPC infrastructure, you could > > possibly use a GWT-RPC request payload as the query parameter in a > > standard request, if you think such a representation would be more > > compact/useful than the representation you're currently using. On the > > server side, you could then use the RPC class (is that still in use?) > > to deserialize the parameters and drive the image request. Might be > > more trouble than it's worth, though. > > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
