Stef,
Thanks for Dynamic Web Development With Seaside - it's a great book! One
omission that I have noted is that of dynamically serving files.
Making a long story short, I have a Seaside app that swallows and regurgitates
literature (300 MB and growing). It is what has me interested in Citezen
(which is working wonderfully - thanks again!). I wish I had known more about
Seaside when I started to write it, but it is slowly improving. Clearly, I
can't put hundreds of megabytes in a FileLibrary, and I have no interest in
configuring a static web server for something that (sadly or not) runs locally
on multiple machines, with data synchronized via what amounts to an rsynch
clone and ever-growing flash sticks.
The answer is to serve the content dynamically, as below. I think this
technique deserves mention in Chapter 17.
Bill
serveFileNamed:fileName for:component canvas:html
| mimeType |
( File splitExtensionFrom:fileName ) = 'pdf' ifTrue:[ mimeType :=
'application/pdf' ].
( File splitExtensionFrom:fileName ) = 'txt' ifTrue:[ mimeType :=
'application/text' ].
( File splitExtensionFrom:fileName ) = 'gz' ifTrue:[ mimeType :=
'application/x-gzip' ].
component session requestContext respond:[ :response |
response
document:self fullTextAsString
mimeType:mimeType
fileName:fileName;
doNotCache
]
