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ceebee

supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Hi all,

I am using orbeon as Filter (seperate deployment mode) on an URL Pattern like "/xform-render/"

Everything works fine, except sometimes I wan't Orebeon to ignore the output, like when there is an PDF generated, after submitting an orbeon form.

eg . Client submits an XFORM to /xform--render/ -> everything gets looped thorugh /orbeon/ but the return should be an PDF , TIFF , SVG , sended through Httpreponse Output stream !

can anybody help ?

Stian Sigvartsen

RE: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Hi Christian

I can't offer a solution, but just to say that I've got a similar
requirement for separate *portlet* deployment mode.
I would like certain portlet render requests to not have to be processed
for Xforms content. Mainly because the Xforms filter expects a full
XHTML document whereas the portlet specification expects XML fragments.

I suspect our two problems have a single solution...

-Stian

-----Original Message-----
From: ceebee [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 18 January 2011 17:05
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Subject: [ops-users] supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment
mode

Hi all,

I am using orbeon as Filter (seperate deployment mode) on an URL Pattern
like "/xform-render/"

Everything works fine, except sometimes I wan't Orebeon to ignore the
output, like when there is an PDF generated, after submitting an orbeon
form.

eg . Client submits an XFORM to /xform--render/ -> everything gets
looped
thorugh /orbeon/ but the return should be an PDF , TIFF , SVG , sended
through Httpreponse Output stream !

can anybody help ?

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Tambet Matiisen

Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

In reply to this post by ceebee

Hi Christian!

Can you move your script, that generates PDF, to another directory?

I see no other option, than to play with paths in XFormsFilter's
<url-pattern> element, see
http://www2.roguewave.com/support/docs/leif/leif/html/bobcatug/7-3.html

Tambet

On 18.01.2011 19:05, ceebee wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using orbeon as Filter (seperate deployment mode) on an URL Pattern
> like "/xform-render/"
>
> Everything works fine, except sometimes I wan't Orebeon to ignore the
> output, like when there is an PDF generated, after submitting an orbeon
> form.
>
> eg . Client submits an XFORM to /xform--render/ -> everything gets looped
> thorugh /orbeon/ but the return should be an PDF , TIFF , SVG , sended
> through Httpreponse Output stream !
>
> can anybody help ?
>

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Erik Bruchez

Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

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In reply to this post by ceebee

So you mean that your servlet produces content that is not XML?

Can you make the XForms filter not kick in for URLs that don't generate XML?

-Erik

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:05 AM, ceebee <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

I am using orbeon as Filter (seperate deployment mode) on an URL Pattern
like "/xform-render/"

Everything works fine, except sometimes I wan't Orebeon to ignore the
output, like when there is an PDF generated, after submitting an orbeon
form.

eg . Client submits an XFORM to /xform--render/ -> everything gets looped
thorugh /orbeon/ but the return should be an PDF , TIFF , SVG , sended
through Httpreponse Output stream !

can anybody help ?

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ceebee

RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

I am not quite sure if this covers my problem ...

The request XML sended in the POST should be handled through orbeon ( XML Validation etc) , only the response should be modified ...

The current workaround is, I copy the XML Document recieved from the POST into the session and in the next step i open a different URL where the orbeon Filter won't match and deliver the non XML data there.

I just had the hope there would be another way !

best regards

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez
Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011 04:14
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Subject: [ops-users] Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

So you mean that your servlet produces content that is not XML?

Can you make the XForms filter not kick in for URLs that don't generate XML?

-Erik

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:05 AM, ceebee <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

I am using orbeon as Filter (seperate deployment mode) on an URL Pattern
like "/xform-render/"

Everything works fine, except sometimes I wan't Orebeon to ignore the
output, like when there is an PDF generated, after submitting an orbeon
form.

eg . Client submits an XFORM to /xform--render/ -> everything gets looped
thorugh /orbeon/ but the return should be an PDF , TIFF , SVG , sended
through Httpreponse Output stream !

can anybody help ?

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software developer

Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-serializers-http

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Belka <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am not quite sure if this covers my problem ...

The request XML sended in the POST should be handled through orbeon ( XML Validation etc) , only the response should be modified ...

The current workaround is, I copy the XML Document recieved from the POST into the session and in the next step i open a different URL where the orbeon Filter won't match and deliver the non XML data there.

I just had the hope there would be another way !

best regards

ceebee

RE: Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

I don't get the idea ...

I have a selfwritten servlet which is mapped to the Path /application/orbeon

orbeon is mapped as filter to the url mapped above ...

in the normal case the servlet receives XForms documents (passed through the filter ) and answers with normal XHTML or XForms (which will be rendered by the orbeon filter )

Now in some certain cases the servlet respondes with non-XForm Data , like PDF's oder images ... then Orbeon also wants to render the response, which leads to errors ...

This is my problem ...

At the moment I solved the problem by linking to another servlet which generates the PDF from a different URL, but therfore i have to store my complete forms in the Session because redirecting the post dosn't work also ...

i hope this explains my problem better

best regards

christian

From: software developer [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011 13:01
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-serializers-http

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Belka <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am not quite sure if this covers my problem ...

The request XML sended in the POST should be handled through orbeon ( XML Validation etc) , only the response should be modified ...

The current workaround is, I copy the XML Document recieved from the POST into the session and in the next step i open a different URL where the orbeon Filter won't match and deliver the non XML data there.

I just had the hope there would be another way !

best regards

Tambet Matiisen

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Hi Christian!

If you can alter the servlet code, then you could create two servlets: one that does server-side processing and creates PDF; and another that generates XForms. You put the first servlet into directory that is not processed by XFormsFilter, and other one into directory where XFormsFilter kicks in.

Now, you always do submit to the first servlet. If the request parameters ask for PDF, then you return PDF. If navigation to another form is requested, then you do redirect (ServletResponse.sendRedirect()) to second servlet and pass on parameters, that are required. Of course you can pass only GET parameters this way.

Actually separating server-side processing code and user-interface code with Post/Redirect/Get pattern is pretty common for web development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get

Alternative solution would be to define two submissions in XForms, one goes to first servlet, another one goes to second. Probably you have two different buttons in user interface for downloading PDF and moving to another form? Then those buttons call different XForms submissions.

Hope this helps.

Tambet

On 20.01.2011 14:58, Christian Belka wrote:

I don't get the idea ...

I have a selfwritten servlet which is mapped to the Path /application/orbeon

orbeon is mapped as filter to the url mapped above ...

in the normal case the servlet receives XForms documents (passed through the filter ) and answers with normal XHTML or XForms (which will be rendered by the orbeon filter )

Now in some certain cases the servlet respondes with non-XForm Data , like PDF's oder images ... then Orbeon also wants to render the response, which leads to errors ...

This is my problem ...

At the moment I solved the problem by linking to another servlet which generates the PDF from a different URL, but therfore i have to store my complete forms in the Session because redirecting the post dosn't work also ...

i hope this explains my problem better

best regards

christian

From: software developer [[hidden email]]
Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011 13:01
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-serializers-http

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Belka <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am not quite sure if this covers my problem ...

The request XML sended in the POST should be handled through orbeon ( XML Validation etc) , only the response should be modified ...

The current workaround is, I copy the XML Document recieved from the POST into the session and in the next step i open a different URL where the orbeon Filter won't match and deliver the non XML data there.

I just had the hope there would be another way !

best regards

Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Administrator

I guess the filter could check the content-type of the document returned and not forward it for XForms processing. You can have a quick look at the filter servlet source:

http://goo.gl/BLoig

It might not be too hard to implement this!

-Erik

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Tambet Matiisen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Christian!

If you can alter the servlet code, then you could create two servlets: one that does server-side processing and creates PDF; and another that generates XForms. You put the first servlet into directory that is not processed by XFormsFilter, and other one into directory where XFormsFilter kicks in.

Now, you always do submit to the first servlet. If the request parameters ask for PDF, then you return PDF. If navigation to another form is requested, then you do redirect (ServletResponse.sendRedirect()) to second servlet and pass on parameters, that are required. Of course you can pass only GET parameters this way.

Actually separating server-side processing code and user-interface code with Post/Redirect/Get pattern is pretty common for web development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get

Alternative solution would be to define two submissions in XForms, one goes to first servlet, another one goes to second. Probably you have two different buttons in user interface for downloading PDF and moving to another form? Then those buttons call different XForms submissions.

Hope this helps.

Tambet

On 20.01.2011 14:58, Christian Belka wrote:

I don't get the idea ...

I have a selfwritten servlet which is mapped to the Path /application/orbeon

orbeon is mapped as filter to the url mapped above ...

in the normal case the servlet receives XForms documents (passed through the filter ) and answers with normal XHTML or XForms (which will be rendered by the orbeon filter )

Now in some certain cases the servlet respondes with non-XForm Data , like PDF's oder images ... then Orbeon also wants to render the response, which leads to errors ...

This is my problem ...

At the moment I solved the problem by linking to another servlet which generates the PDF from a different URL, but therfore i have to store my complete forms in the Session because redirecting the post dosn't work also ...

i hope this explains my problem better

best regards

christian

From: software developer [[hidden email]]
Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011 13:01
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: supressing orbeonrendering with seperate deployment mode

Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-serializers-http

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Belka <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am not quite sure if this covers my problem ...

The request XML sended in the POST should be handled through orbeon ( XML Validation etc) , only the response should be modified ...

The current workaround is, I copy the XML Document recieved from the POST into the session and in the next step i open a different URL where the orbeon Filter won't match and deliver the non XML data there.

I just had the hope there would be another way !

best regards

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