On 26 Oct 2012, at 2:46 AM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote:
> do you serve a StringIO instance ? for 2. you may try 
> response.stream(yourcsvinstance, filename='foo.csv', attachment=True)

I don't; I'm just returning a list of tuples to the Service wrapper (eventually 
I'd make it a generator, was my plan).

> 
> 
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 1:13:17 AM UTC+2, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> I want to build a dataset (list of lists) in response to a user request and 
> cause a csv of that dataset to be downloaded. 
> 
> I have a working but ugly implementation that uses @service.csv. If I access 
> the URL 
> 
> http://domain.com/app/default/call/csv/foo 
> 
> ...it works OK and downloads a file named 'foo'. 
> 
> A couple of questions. 
> 
> 1. Is there a better way (considering that this is a user request, not really 
> a web service per se)? 
> 
> 2. How do I make the downloaded file, above, be named foo.csv? Maybe set 
> request.extension? (I tried call.csv in the URL, which still downloaded 
> 'foo'.) 
> 
> 3. Can I combine @auth.requires_something with @service.csv? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 


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