I did some debugging using firebug - Here is what is happening :
When I choose HTML report there is a POST (posts form data - essentially
filters selected by user) followed by GET (actual HTML page is returned
from the template)
But when I choose PDF report - I don't see any POST/GET in the firebug.
(But PDF is indeed returned to the browser)
Now that form is in weird state, if I click Submit one more time, I get
POST, GET and another POST in firebug, but user doesn't see anything.
Do I need to return 200-OK (equivalent) when I return PDF data via
appreport ?
Please help
-Mandar
On Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:00:32 PM UTC+5:30, Mandar Vaze wrote:
>
> return response.stream(open(request.folder+'/static/temp.pdf',
>> 'rb'),chunk_size=4096)
>> # pdf.output(pfile, 'F')
>> redirect(URL("index"))
>>
>
> Will the execution ever reach redirect statement above ?
> I'm interested because I have a report page which generates the reports
> based on form submit.
> User also has option to show PDF report (checkbox)
> I use appreport plugin to return the PDF. My code looks something like
> this ...
>
> return_dict = dict(key1=val1, key2=val2) #Some values that make send
> to the template
> if pdfreport is not None and pdfreport == 'on':
> html = response.render('default/pdfreport.html', return_dict)
> pdfName = "mypdfname.pdf"
> return plugin_appreport.REPORTPISA(html=html,
> response_filename=pdfName)
> else:
> return return_dict
>
> Here is the problem :
>
> When I use HTML report (last statement after else) - user is shown a
> different page, but when I select and return PDF report, use stays on the
> same page, but the "form" is in some weird state. i.e user can click
> "submit" again but nothing happens till user "refreshes" the page.
>
> I had something like the above in mind, where user is redirected to the
> "same" page, but the page is refreshed - AFTER pdf is returned to the user.
> But I don't think any code after "return" would work.
>
> Any work around to redirect the user after PDF is returned (via appreport?)
>
> Thanks,
> -Mandar
>
>
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