Eurig,
One way to do this, is by writing a custom PhaseListener. There are
some examples available on the web for serving static resources this
way, but you can easily adapt these examples to serve the contents of
your managed bean property as a CSV.
- http://www.jroller.com/page/mert?entry=js_css_img_loading_resources
- https://blueprints.dev.java.net/bpcatalog/ee5/ajax/phaselistener.html
You might want to consider to start using Apache Shale's Remoting
support. If you write your own Processor implementation and configure
it as shown on
http://shale.apache.org/shale-remoting/apidocs/org/apache/shale/remoting/package-summary.html,
the Shale framework will do the rest.
Regards,
Gert Vanthienen
Eurig Jones wrote:
I have a link on a facelets page which I want to users to be able to
click and download a text file (with it's own extension such as .csv).
The contents of this text file is simply the contents of a String
property in a jsf bean.
I'm not sure how to go about doing the above, I'm not even sure if
it's possible using JSF. Any ideas?
Regards,
Eurig
