4 Replies Latest reply on Oct 5, 2007 11:26 AM by nemya

specify content type for XHMTL

nemya Aug 24, 2007 10:57 AM

Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible and how to specify content-type for an XHTML Page. I need this to generate an xls(excel) file.
Pleaaase some help!

1. Re: specify content type for XHMTL

sjmenden Aug 24, 2007 12:17 PM (in response to nemya)
use the following in the page you want to be excel:

<f:view contentType="....."> </f:view}

where ..... is the excel mime type
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2. Re: specify content type for XHMTL

nemya Aug 24, 2007 12:29 PM (in response to nemya)

I've already tryied that but it didn't work. I tried:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<head>
<title>Page XHTML</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head>
<body>
<f:view contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td>1</td>
 <td>2</td>
 <td>3</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>4</td>
 <td>5</td>
 <td>6</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </f:view>
</body>
</html>

And I got this error message:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ContentTypeList does not contain a supported content type: application/vnd.ms-excel
 at org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.HtmlRendererUtils.selectContentType(HtmlRendererUtils.java:964)
...

3. Re: specify content type for XHMTL

sjmenden Aug 24, 2007 1:49 PM (in response to nemya)

The myfaces HtmlRendererUtils doesn't look like it takes into account any other content types except text/html and application/xhtml+xml. JSF 1.2 RI on the other hand correctly handles it. So you can move to Seam 2.0 and JBoss 4.2, or you can just upgrade your existing project/JBoss to use JSF 1.2 RI, see the documentation. After that use the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!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"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.ajax4jsf.org/rich">

 <ui:composition>
 <f:view contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td>1</td>
 <td>2</td>
 <td>3</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>4</td>
 <td>5</td>
 <td>6</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </f:view>
 </ui:composition>

</html>

4. Re: specify content type for XHMTL

nemya Oct 5, 2007 11:26 AM (in response to nemya)

Hi
finally I migtrated to Seam 2.0.0.CR1 but your exemple still doesnt work!
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