Saving PDFs to Server

[Penguin_Buddha]

So I've got an application handling employee timesheets and I'd like to be able to save a timesheet as a PDF for the current user and mail a copy to that user's manager.

I'm using the PDF Plugin and as it works now it seems to only create and save pdfs for the current user. How can I save a copy to the server as well?

Thanks for any help,
Nate

[Nathan Wells]

Looks like the rendering plugin has an API that allows you to provide an OutputStream

https://github.com/gpc/grails-rendering/blob/master/grails-app/services/grails/plugin/rendering/RenderingService.groovy

Maybe time to switch plugins?

Nathan Wells

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Penguin_Buddha <[hidden email]> wrote:

So I've got an application handling employee timesheets and I'd like to be
able to save a timesheet as a PDF for the current user and mail a copy to
that user's manager.

I'm using the PDF Plugin and as it works now it seems to only create and
save pdfs for the current user. How can I save a copy to the server as well?

Thanks for any help,
Nate



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[Penguin_Buddha]

Thanks for the help.

I'm looking over the manual and it talks about providing a destination for the render to write to. I'm unfamiliar with this, how do I provide the server as a destination?

[Nathan Wells]

I assume that you'd write it the the filesystem, using the Java File and IO APIs:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/file.html

Good luck!

Nathan Wells

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Penguin_Buddha <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks for the help.

I'm looking over
http://gpc.github.com/grails-rendering/docs/manual/index.html the manual
and it talks about providing a destination for the render to write to. I'm
unfamiliar with this, how do I provide the server as a destination?



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[quorak]

if you have a chance, 

have a look at

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

https://github.com/quorak/grails-wkhtmltopdf

havent got a chance to write documentation yet

to get binary Pdf it is as easy as:

byte[] pdf = wkhtmltoxService.makePdf(

                view: "/pdf/invoice",

                model: [orderInstance: orderInstance],

                header: "/pdf/invoiceHeader",

                footer: "/pdf/invoiceFooter",

                marginLeft: 20,

                marginTop: 35,

                marginBottom: 20,

                marginRight: 20,

                headerSpacing: 10,

        )

to send the file to the user's browser, it is as easy as:

        render( filename:"Gutschrift ${orderInstance.id}.pdf",view:"/pdf/credit",

                model:[orderInstance:orderInstance],

                header:"/pdf/invoiceHeader",

                footer:"/pdf/invoiceFooter",

                marginLeft:20,

                marginTop:35,

                marginBottom:20,

                marginRight:20,

                headerSpacing:10

        )

cheers

tobias

Am 01.08.2012 um 21:54 schrieb Nathan Wells:

I assume that you'd write it the the filesystem, using the Java File and IO APIs:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/file.html

Good luck!

Nathan Wells

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Penguin_Buddha <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks for the help.

I'm looking over
http://gpc.github.com/grails-rendering/docs/manual/index.html the manual
and it talks about providing a destination for the render to write to. I'm
unfamiliar with this, how do I provide the server as a destination?



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[Penguin_Buddha]

I've been trying  to use the rendering plugin but to no avail. The service is creating a pdf, but something is wrong because my pdf reader claims the pdf isn't a pdf or is corrupted.

Here is my controller:

package testrender

class PrimaryController {

	def pdfRenderingService
	
    def index = { 
		
		def bytes = pdfRenderingService.render(template: '/primary/test', model: [name: "Nathan"])
		
		new File("Test123.pdf").withOutputStream { outputStream -> 
			pdfRenderingService.render(template: '/primary/test', model: [name: "Nathan"])	
		}
			
	}
}

Here is my template

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
	<title>Title of document</title>
</head>

<body>
	Hello!
</body>

</html>

Any idea why the pdf isnt being properly created?

[jaosimt]

this works for me... have a look def targetDir = adminService.getFilePath('itinerary') def savedPdf = new File(targetDir + booking?.bookingNumber + '.pdf').withOutputStream { outputStream -> pdfRenderingService.render(controller: this, template: "/home/eTicket", model: [booking: booking, fare: fare, addOnAmount: addOnAmount, subTotal: subTotal, vatAmount: vatAmount, totalAmount: totalAmount, totalPayment: totalPayment, logo: logo, qrCodeImage: qrCodeImage], outputStream) }