On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:45, Rowan Woodhouse < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, > > I need to generate a download file on the fly (it's an excel spread sheet > with content drawn from a database) but I'm having some difficulty working > out the best way to do this. > > At the moment I've got an Archetype based product that has a FileField in > the schema. So far I've been attempting to work out a way to create the > correct sort of accessor so that the generated file is never saved in Zope > itself (at the moment I just get the file coming over as plain text mime > type). Is this the best approach? If so could someone point me in the > correct direction on how to wrap the file correctly so that it downloads > correctly instead of coming over as a plain text file? If not could someone > point me in a more sensible direction? Generating Excel files has been discussed lately (check the list archive). Sending out a generated content is trivial. You have to set correct content-type|length HTTP header and emit the payload in the response of the body (also explained a dozen times, check the archive). -aj > > > Regards, > Rowan > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Generating-file-downloads-on-the-fly-tp2906670p2906670.html > Sent from the Product Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers >
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