On Thu, 31 May 2001, Wu, Ying (LNG-CIS) wrote:
>> I need to send a string which represents a xml file to browser, I
need to
>> call response.setContentType("text/xml"). But it is at
ActionServlet level
>> and is default to "text/html".
>> > 1. Any idea?
>
>Although the controller servlet sets the default output type, this gets
>replaced if you forward to a JSP page (or whatever) at the end of your
>action.
>
>> 2. I can do the output at MyAction.perform() level, but how to
handle the
> return type of this method?
> If you are generating the output in your Action itself, you should
>return null from your perform() method. This tells the controller
>servlet that the response has already been created, so no forwarding
is >required.
Does this this mean if I want the perform() method to output a jpg file
then I should open an output stream inside the action, ie
ServletOutputStream stream = response.getOutputStream()
and just write the jpg file to this stream, then at the end of the
perform() method return null?
Cheers
Antony
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