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karolina

Member

Registered: 2014-08-09

Saving xml as a file

Hi,

I have created a script report and one of the export format is xml. I would like to save the xml file on a hard disk.
Currently, after export, the xml is displayed in another tab of a web browser (Firefox).
How to make it saved as file?

Cheers,

Karolina

Thorsten J. Krause

Guest

Re: Saving xml as a file

Hi Karolina,

you are probably using something like

return new CompiledXmlReport(writer.toString())

to return the report results, right?
Try replacing this with

return new CompiledXmlReport(writer.toString()){
	@Override
	public String getMimeType() {
		return "application/octet-stream";
	}
}

what happens here is that we override the correct mimetype (which is what the browser uses to decide how to handle a file) with something generic. So the browser no longer knows that the dowloaded file is a xml file and does not try to display it. It's kind of a hack (the correct approach would be to set a Content-disposition header, but you cant do this from a scriptreport (yet)), but it should do it.

Cheers,
Thorsten

karolina

Member

Registered: 2014-08-09

Re: Saving xml as a file

It works - thanks a lot!

Karolina