Opening PDF document inside Rich:panel

[sriramsudheer]

Hi folks, I am trying to implement this beautiful example please help me where i am going wrong :(

The example is working fine for mimetype: image/jpeg but not working for application/pdf
.xhtml code

 <div class="actionButtons">
            <h:commandButton id="search" value="Search" action="/UserList.xhtml"/>     
            <h:commandButton id="runImage" value="Drawing Image" >
            <a4j:support event="onKeyup" reRender="panelImage"/>
            </h:commandButton>
            
               <h:commandButton id="runReport" value="Drawing PDF" >
            <a4j:support event="onKeyup" reRender="panelPdf"/>
            </h:commandButton>                            
        </div>
        
    </h:form>
    <rich:panel id="panelImage">
    <a4j:mediaOutput  element="img" cacheable="false" session="true"
        createContent="#{mediaBean.paint}" mimeType="image/jpeg" />             
     </rich:panel>
     
     <rich:panel id="panelPdf">
    <a4j:mediaOutput  element="object" cacheable="false" session="true"
        createContent="#{reportrunner.paint}" mimeType="application/pdf" />             
     </rich:panel>

labels.pdf exists in the same folder where seam component exists

seamComponent:

 public void paint(OutputStream out, Object obj) throws IOException
    {
         log.info("I am trying to display Lables");
              java.io.InputStream file = 

            FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().

             getExternalContext().

                 getResourceAsStream(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("labels.pdf").getFile());
              
              if(file== null) {
                   log.info("File Not Found in classpath");
              }
              int size = file.available();
              log.info("size of file:"+size);
              byte[] pdf = new byte[size];

              file.read(pdf);

              file.close();

              out.write(pdf);

         
    }

[baz]

What kind of errors do you get?

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

It doesn't look like there has been much success with showing PDFs inline using the mediaOutput tag. See this and this. I can't really see how it could be done reliably anyway, without using iFrames as you would have to assume that the browser had the PDF plugin.

I'm about to start using Sun's PDF Renderer to display my PDFs as images. This might be a better option for you.

Cheers,

Damian.

[sriramsudheer]

Hi Carsten, createContent = #"{mediaBean.paint}" should call the method  paint(OutputStream out, Object obj) which is not happening.

Hi Damian, I looked at the jira bug in which they clearly mentioned its not do with mediaoutput. Please look at this  link 
too

[sriramsudheer]

To you Damin,
                I have a question, If we display it as images can people save or print pdf documents ?

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Well I was anticipating putting a link on my page for View which would render the image in a panel on the page, and also a link for Download which would download the PDF. I suppose you could have one for Print that would open the image in a new window and launch a print dialog. That should work well.

Cheers,

Damian.