pdf generation without redirect
lucas84 Aug 12, 2009 1:29 PMhi guys,
I use seam feature for pdf generation. Everything works fine. Our requirements don't allow case, when user bookmarks redirected url i.e.
seam/docstore/document.seam?docId=1&cid=7
and when accesses it one more time gets exception for missing resource, or page with explanation why the resource is missing (errorPage attribute of documentStore). I set attribute sendRedirect to false which doesn't work as I expect (I expected that sent response will be pdf document).
The code below (UIDocument) shows what happens when sendRedirect is set to false, so I nested document within outputText (implementator of ValueHolder). I got page with result of toString() on object kept by outputText.value. I have no idea what intention had author while writing this piece of code. Can you give me any hint how to make usage of this ??
{ UIComponent parent = getParent(); if (parent instanceof ValueHolder) { ValueHolder holder = (ValueHolder) parent; holder.setValue(documentData); } }
In order to achieve my requirements I extended UIDocument and reimplemented encodeEnd() and changed else clause for sendRedirect to code below, which is a copy of DocumentStorePhaseListener
{ HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) context.getExternalContext().getResponse(); response.setContentType(documentData.getDocumentType().getMimeType()); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", documentData.getDisposition() + "; filename=\"" + documentData.getFileName() + "\""); response.getWriter(); documentData.writeDataToStream(response.getOutputStream()); context.responseComplete(); }
Unfortunately I got following exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Servlet response already use Writer, OutputStream not possible at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.FilterServletResponseWrapper.getOutputStream(FilterServletResponseWrapper.java:224) at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getOutputStream(ServletResponseWrapper.java:102) at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getOutputStream(ServletResponseWrapper.java:102) at org.jboss.seam.pdf.ui.PatchedUIDocument.encodeEnd(PatchedUIDocument.java:63) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:946) at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:942) at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:592) at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100) at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:176) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:109) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:100) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:266) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83) at org.jboss.seam.web.RewriteFilter.doFilter(RewriteFilter.java:63) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.IdentityFilter.doFilter(IdentityFilter.java:40) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:90) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:73) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:532) at org.jboss.seam.web.Ajax4jsfFilter.doFilter(Ajax4jsfFilter.java:56) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:53) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:178) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:290) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:390) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:517) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:432) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:446) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
This is my show stopper and can't find any solution / workaround
I have couple of questions:
1) why this exception is thrown?
2) when DocumentStorePhaseListener executes the same code it works?
3) how to make usage of sendRedirect when set to false (what was author's idea)?
4) any ideas how to achieve my goal?
thx for any help