We have a web api GET method which should return a PDF file as output. Also, when i try the GET method from a browser window, it should render the PDF in the browser window. Is there any way we can accomplish this?
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Lolek
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"Why" and "When" we get this code in JMeter response instead of the real/original page and how to get rid of it?
Script is running successfully but getting this in response & this appears randomly.
Code which i get in response against my request is as displayed in this screenshot:
In View Results Tree the default is showing the response as text file.
The default Text view shows all of the text contained in the response.
You want it to render as Html so choose in drop down of component as HTML or HTML (download resources) and JMeter will render it similar to browser
If the HTML (download resources) view option is selected, the renderer may download images, style-sheets, etc.
I want to save the html generated by a javascript on a website.
When I run the javascript, it returns me the html ready, with a button that link to the chrome printer, to save as pdf. I want to save this html genrated as a PDF, but I can't do it.
I've spent days triyng almos everything, PDFKit with Nokogiri Parsing, searched for a chrome printer API, etc, but nothing made it. Does anyone knows how can I do that?
Using phantomjs and rasterize.js can convert it.
Then just run the command
phantomjs rasterize.js $URL_OR_PATH $PDF_OUT_FILENAME Letter
Based on the JavaScript you're running, figure out the URL it calls, along with whatever variables it adds to the GET/POST request, then use OpenURI or an HTTP client of some sort to request that file. Pass that to Nokogiri, and parse out the URL for the file.
The alternate is to use one of the WATIR gems to drive a browser, and access the file that way. Then you can retrieve the HTML, or have the browser retrieve the file, and get it off the disk when its done.
I didn't understood the second solution you proposed, can you explain more?
Sometimes developers use Ajax to retrieve HTML and insert it into a page, or directly manipulate the page's HTML using JavaScript.
You can ask a Watir-driven browser to give you the current HTML and then parse it using Nokogiri or another XML parser, to retrieve things that are part of the HTML DOM at that moment. From there you can save that to disk and have the Watir-driven browser read it and render it. Then it's a matter of figuring out how to get the browser to print to PDF, or grab a snapshot of the screen to turn it into a PDF.
I need to launch IE from my WP7 app and load the HTML to create the page dynamically. The HTML is read from a web service and can change at any time, so I'm not able to just store the HTML in a file. Is there a way to do this -- much like you do with WebBrowser.NavigateToString(strHtml)?
-Thanks!
If you are attempting to open your HTML content in an embedded WebBrowser control you can use the "NavigateToString" function and pass it the HTML content you would like to load.
If you are trying to open it in the native IE browser on the device then I would recommend putting state information in the URL and opening the page directly with any parameters required to replicate the view in the browser via the WebBrowserTask. This way you wouldn't technically be opening the HTML code from your app but you would be able to ensure that the HTML content loaded from your service is correct based on your query parameters.
Are you looking for WebBrowserTask?
now i'm making application for facebook with javascript.but I don't know method to change my screen application to .jpg file.
So,I would like to know how to change my application and post it
Thank you for your help.
You cannot get the screenshot done client side, however you can grab the HTML code of the page being viewed and AJAX it up to your server, have your server component transform that HTML into an image.
Use this to get the HTML content of the page at the moment they want the screen capture document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;
AJAX the HTML to your server
Have your server transform that HTML into an image (depending upon server-side technology you're using, there are solutions to this) (eg http://www.converthtmltoimage.com/)
two choice, store the image on your server to be the permanent place sending back the new URL for the image, or send the content back to the client.
Have the client HTTP Post the image content to Facebook for the post, or reference the URL
It's a big project, but I commend you for tackling something like this.
Goal:
I want to let my users download a file on my webpage. I want a new window to open and the file to be either displayed or downloaded there.
My implementation:
This file however, first has to be generated on the server-side, which might take a while. When the user clicks the button to download the file, I do an ajax call and show a waiting animation until I get a response. The controller action that handles the call will generate the file (PDF) and return a FileResult. Now in the succes function of my ajax call back in javascript, I get the file data.
Problem: I have no Idea what I'm supposed to do with this data to get it to the user.
Workaround:
Right now I use a workaround where I do not return the file in the ajax call, but store it in session. In the succes function I do window.open("/controller/getPDFFromSession") which will download the file. However, I prefer not to use the session for these kind of things.
Thanks in advance.
Problem: I have no Idea what I'm supposed to do with this data to get it to the user.
You shouldn't use AJAX for downloading files for this reason. You could do the following:
The user clicks on the download button
Using javascript you show some progress image informing him that he will have to wait
Using javascript you generate and inject a hidden iframe into the DOM having its src property pointing to the controller action supposed to generate the file
Once the iframe is loaded you could hide the progress image