I did this with PDF a while a go as a test and then "almost" implemeted the CSV version, this should work (not sure wrote this a while ago):
public String exportToCsv(){
ByteArrayOutputStream outStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream ();
// Write CSV data tot he outStream
FacesContext faces = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) faces.getExternalContext().getResponse();
response.setContentType("text/csv");
response.setContentLength( outStream.size() );
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=\"sumtab.csv\ "");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "cache, must-revalidate");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "public");
try {
ServletOutputStream output = response.getOutputStream();
output.write(outStream.toByteArray() );
} catch (IOException e) {
log.debug("IOException in exportToCsv: " + e.toString());
}
faces.responseComplete();
try {
outStream.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
On 14/08/06, Eurig Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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