a4j:mediaOutput to render pdf document

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Hi guys...

Tearing my hair out - just can't seem to make a4j:mediaOutput render a pdf document....

I have no problems rendering jpg but when I set element="object" mimeType="application/pdf", the Bean.paint method does not get called.

Does anyone have a working example please?

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OK - Sorted

A good nights sleep and upgrade to 3.3.2-SR1 from 3.3.1-GA solved this particular problem...

<a4j:mediaOutput element="object" mimeType="application/pdf" classid="CLSID:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000"
 id="media" session="false" createContent="#{GenericDocumentBean.paint}" value="1"
 style="width:800px; height:600px;" cacheable="false" >
 </a4j:mediaOutput>

I'm actually retrieveing the .pdf from a database so in this code, document.getFdata() retrieves a varbinary(max) field from an SQL Server database via hibernate..

public void paint(OutputStream stream, Object object) throws IOException, SQLException {
 SerializableBlob sblob = (SerializableBlob) document.getFdata();
 Blob blob = sblob.getWrappedBlob();
 InputStream inStream = blob.getBinaryStream();
 int length = -1;
 byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];

 while ((length = inStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
 stream.write(buffer, 0, length);
 }
 }

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