Export view to a file client side

[CrC Nommack]

Hi everybody.

First of all thank you very much for your help it would be really appreciated.

Well this is "my problem".

I have a custom view and I want it to be save as a html file by the client.

But I don't know how to do it!!!

I tried:

 with open(filename, 'wb') as f:

         f.write(response.render('controller/export.html',dict(test=test, stats=stats)))

Works but it saves the file in the server :(

How can I make it? Any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards

[Anthony]

Are you saying you want the client to be able to download a fully rendered HTML document (as opposed to actually displaying the HTML in the browser)? If so, you can do something like this:

def export():
    import cStringIO
    html = response.render(dict(test=test, stats=stats))
    export = cStringIO.StringIO()
    export.write(html)
    export.seek(0)
    return response.stream(export, attachment=True, filename='export.html')

If that is in the default.py controller, when you request the URL /myapp/default/export, that will render the /views/default/export.html view and return the HTML file as an attachment to be downloaded. If you want to render a different view, you can specify the relative path to the view file as the first argument to response.render().

Anthony

[Sergio Leal]

Thank you very much Anthony.

I was stuck with this!!

It works perfectly!

Again thank you Anthony.

Kind regards

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