Hi Kjell Arne,
Thank you very much for your reply. That was pretty quick :).
I don't think you will be able to save anything programatically to
the client machine from the browser.
Yes, I am aware of that, but thank you for reminding.
I know of only two options or workarounds. Either you have to instruct the
user to save the whole document from the file menu,
Oh, I wish the customer was that compassionate and understood the hardship of being a developer. :)
or you can use a Flash swf or Java applet/program. At least you would have some possibility to save to the client's hard disk.
This is not an option, as I don't think I am allowed to introduce any extra requirements to the browser (i.e. having flash/applet viewer installed).
Instead I wanted something like sourceforge downloads. You know when you click on "download" link, the same page is still displayed in the browser, but then a few seconds later "Save file" dialog box pops up, that lets you save the selected file to the disk (this sentence really gets me nailed, as it's not a Cocoon question - more like a JavaScript/browser one).
AFAIK such functionality can be accomplished by setting refresh meta tag in the header of the html page. It's "nice-and-easy", but I can't do that either, as what I am working on will be used in cocoon portal (which I think strips out all the html/head/body tags by default (for cachingURIcoplets), and it doesn't look right to hack the skin to allow for this one case).
So the problem are these:
1) which mime type needs to be selected for the serializer so that browser doesn't show the result but rather prompts to save it. Is it ok, if I put something that I know is not supported i.e.
<map:serialize
type="xml"
mime-type="application/my-not-supported-type"/>
2) how to make sure that a new window is not opened, and the old one stays unchanged and the save-as dialog is still showed? (looks like an impossible task to me)
Thank you once again.
Sincerely, Nick Goupinets.
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From: Nick Goupinets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20. februar 2005 15:49
To: [email protected]
Subject: Save pipeline results on client
Hi everybody,
Thank you for reading this post. I need some help with storing pipeline results on the client side. The ultimate goal is to have somewhere a button, which, when clicked, will provide a "Save as" dialog box, so that the user will be able to save the produced XML to his or her file system.
When I was trying to implement that, I could not come up with anything better, than having a JavaScript enabled button, that will open a new browser window. Window's location will point to a pipeline which ends with an XML serializer with some non-default mime type (or I guess, I can make a reader for this purpose). As the result, the browser will not try to render the content, but rather offer a dialog box that prompts user to either select a suitable application to work with the file with or to save it to disk.
Are there any more elegant solutions? Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely, Nick Goupinets.
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