[basex-talk] Downloading files
I am using BaseX restxq for accessing a repository from a web browser.
Uploading files works smoothly, but I can't see how to make a download
button work.
For uploading, the recipie on the restxq help page was enough to get it to
work. Is there a corresponding way for making downloading work?
What I have tried is to let BaseX send a html-page containing:
form method=get action=/download/{$file}
button type=submitDownload/button
/form
To process this form is the following restfunction
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
%output:method(html)
function page:download-file($file) { ... }
Inside the curly braces, I have tried an a href.. element and
file:read-binary, but none of them with any success. BaseX complains about
the a element, and file:read-binary outputs directly to the browser.
Any suggestions?
Re: [basex-talk] Downloading files
Hi Lars,
You need to return a sequence of two items: (restxq:response,thedata)
I do something like...
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
function page:download-file($file)
{
(download-response(raw,$file), file:read-binary(..))
};
(:~ headers for download :)
declare function download-response($method,$filename){
restxq:response
output:serialization-parameters
output:method value={$method}/
/output:serialization-parameters
http:response
http:header name=Content-Disposition
value='attachment;filename={$filename}'/
/http:response
/restxq:response
};
/Andy
On 21 August 2014 15:40, Lars Johnsen yoon...@gmail.com wrote:
I came a little closer by making custom http:headers, but I have to
confess I'm in deep water here:
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
function page:download-file($file)
{
rest:response
http:response status=200 message=OK
http:header name=Content-Disposition value=Attachment/
http:header name=filename value={$file}/
/http:response
/rest:response
};
This function do trigger a download of a file with the appropriate file
name (=$file) containing the text OK. If I just could find somewhere in
this code to put the contents of file, it should solve the problem.
Best,
Lars
2014-08-21 15:20 GMT+02:00 Lars Johnsen yoon...@gmail.com:
I am using BaseX restxq for accessing a repository from a web browser.
Uploading files works smoothly, but I can't see how to make a download
button work.
For uploading, the recipie on the restxq help page was enough to get it
to work. Is there a corresponding way for making downloading work?
What I have tried is to let BaseX send a html-page containing:
form method=get action=/download/{$file}
button type=submitDownload/button
/form
To process this form is the following restfunction
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
%output:method(html)
function page:download-file($file) { ... }
Inside the curly braces, I have tried an a href.. element and
file:read-binary, but none of them with any success. BaseX complains about
the a element, and file:read-binary outputs directly to the browser.
Any suggestions?
Re: [basex-talk] Downloading files
Thanks a lot Andy! It works like a charm. Now the filename can be
manipulated as well. Perfect!
Best,
Lars
2014-08-21 17:10 GMT+02:00 Andy Bunce bunce.a...@gmail.com:
Hi Lars,
You need to return a sequence of two items: (restxq:response,thedata)
I do something like...
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
function page:download-file($file)
{
(download-response(raw,$file), file:read-binary(..))
};
(:~ headers for download :)
declare function download-response($method,$filename){
restxq:response
output:serialization-parameters
output:method value={$method}/
/output:serialization-parameters
http:response
http:header name=Content-Disposition
value='attachment;filename={$filename}'/
/http:response
/restxq:response
};
/Andy
On 21 August 2014 15:40, Lars Johnsen yoon...@gmail.com wrote:
I came a little closer by making custom http:headers, but I have to
confess I'm in deep water here:
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
function page:download-file($file)
{
rest:response
http:response status=200 message=OK
http:header name=Content-Disposition value=Attachment/
http:header name=filename value={$file}/
/http:response
/rest:response
};
This function do trigger a download of a file with the appropriate file
name (=$file) containing the text OK. If I just could find somewhere in
this code to put the contents of file, it should solve the problem.
Best,
Lars
2014-08-21 15:20 GMT+02:00 Lars Johnsen yoon...@gmail.com:
I am using BaseX restxq for accessing a repository from a web browser.
Uploading files works smoothly, but I can't see how to make a download
button work.
For uploading, the recipie on the restxq help page was enough to get it
to work. Is there a corresponding way for making downloading work?
What I have tried is to let BaseX send a html-page containing:
form method=get action=/download/{$file}
button type=submitDownload/button
/form
To process this form is the following restfunction
declare
%rest:path(/download/{$file})
%output:method(html)
function page:download-file($file) { ... }
Inside the curly braces, I have tried an a href.. element and
file:read-binary, but none of them with any success. BaseX complains about
the a element, and file:read-binary outputs directly to the browser.
Any suggestions?
