I am new to struts, and have just recently began porting our current web application over to the struts framework. A piece of our application involves creating a pdf file and displaying it to the user. Currently, in the old framework, we set the ContextType of the response, and write the byte content to the response's oputputstream, which will render the pdf document in the browser. I know I have direct access to the response under Struts, but I wanted to see if there was a better (cleaner) implementation within the struts framework that I may utilize.
Here's a snippet of what I'm doing: --- response.setContentLength(doc.getContent().length); response.setContentType(doc.getMimeType().toString()); response.getOutputStream().write(doc.getContent()); return new ActionForward(); --- I've noticed that I get a NullPointer exception after the return statement on "some" requests. I'm really unsure of why this is happening as well. Stack trace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestPr ocessor.java:437) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionForward(RequestPr ocessor.java:401) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java: 279) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1420) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:520) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) _________________ Jeremy Nix Senior Application Developer Southwest Financial Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (513) 621-6699 ext 1158
