Re: [basex-talk] Forcing download of JSON doc

2019-08-01 Thread Tim Thompson
Thanks for the tip! By declaring the %output:method("json") annotation AND calling the serialize function, I was basically reserializing the data. -- Tim A. Thompson Discovery Metadata Librarian Yale University Library On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:55 AM Marco Lettere wrote: > Maybe using

Re: [basex-talk] Forcing download of JSON doc

2019-08-01 Thread Marco Lettere
Maybe using json:serialize() rather than serialize? In general if output:method is set to Json it should be sufficient to return map{} or array{} or alternatively the XML version of a json document without having to explicitly serialize ... M. On 01/08/19 14:36, Tim Thompson wrote: Thank

Re: [basex-talk] Forcing download of JSON doc

2019-08-01 Thread Tim Thompson
Thank you, Marco. So, the download issue seems to be with XForms (XSLTForms) rather than BaseX. If I do a file upload from a plain HTML form, the file download is triggered correctly. However, even though I have set "application/json" as the Content-Type, the contents of the downloaded file are an

Re: [basex-talk] Forcing download of JSON doc

2019-08-01 Thread Marco Lettere
Hi Tim, downloading from a browser when posting a form is usually a bit tricky. For me it always ended up with the creation of an artificial element with an href crafted from the form parameters and with an attribute download="filename.ext" added to it. Anyway you could try with returning a

[basex-talk] Forcing download of JSON doc

2019-07-31 Thread Tim Thompson
Hello, I am posting a JSON doc to a RESTXQ function from XForms and trying to set a Content-Disposition header to trigger a file download. Is this possible to do without first saving the JSON doc as a file? Right now, the RESTXQ function returns the correct headers, but does not force a file