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| receiving information/reading a file [message #859557] |
Fri, 27 April 2012 17:46  |
 Sean Gilley
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Let me start with I'm a newbie at Eclipse, and at RAP, and pretty much all the technologies I'm trying to use. Java is about the only thing I'm proficient with.
That said, I'm trying to complete a RAP application that was started by someone else. It's close enough to complete that I'd like to try deploying it, but I'm confused about something.
Currently we have a CGI script that gets some information, then produces XML which the user downloads to their PC. The user now needs to edit a .bat file to input the name of the XML file and run an RCP application.
The idea of the RAP app is to replace the second stage of the process with something basically invisible to the user, i.e., the user provides the information via a CGI script, then the XML is generated and fed to the RAP app, which magically appears in the user's browser.
Currently the RAP application reads the information from a file on my PC, using an environment variable set up in the Run Configuration menu.
How do I feed the XML to the RAP application? The XML can be relatively large -- on the order of 650 lines, so I'm not sure that sending via get/post is a viable solution, but I'm willing to look at it. If so, how do I get the RAP application to read the input? If not via CGI, do I just need to save the XML in a temp location and send the RAP application the filename, and read it from there?
I'm more than willing to read a website if the info's out there. I just haven't been able to find it.
Thanks,
Sean.
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| Re: receiving information/reading a file [message #863275 is a reply to message #859557] |
Sun, 29 April 2012 11:06  |
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Hi Sean,
you probably don't have to create and upload this file again every
single time a given user starts the application, do you? If not, you
could save this XML file in the user's setting store (a persistent
server-side store, see RWT.getSettingStore()). If you need a new file
for every session, keep it in the session store (RWT.getSessionStore()).
Before you start the workbench in your entrypoint, you could check for
the file, and if it is not present, let the user upload or paste it. You
could even build an SWT-based form for the user to enter the information
needed to generate the XML file. When you have the file, store it in the
session store or setting store and start the workbench. The application
can read the XML file from this store when needed.
Does this help?
Ralf
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| Re: receiving information/reading a file [message #865487 is a reply to message #863275] |
Mon, 30 April 2012 12:26 |
Sean Gilley
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Registered: April 2012 |
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Ralf, thanks for your reply.
The idea behind the app is to display a dependency tree that is created in real time from a database. The dependency tree can be created from any one of 40-50 entry points. I might be able to get away with just two files, as I believe all the dependencies exist in one of two trees, but I can't do better than that, and even then, as I said, that's not really what management wants. And the files would probably need to be recreated on a daily basis, but I can set up a cron job to do that -- it isn't an issue.
But, let's assume I go with a single file. Like I said, I'm new at Eclipse/RAP. How do I set the filename in the session store?
Thanks,
Sean.
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| Re: receiving information/reading a file [message #866242 is a reply to message #859557] |
Mon, 30 April 2012 20:13 |
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Sean,
If you can modify the CGI script, you could have it send the xml data directly to a servlet within the RAP server which could store the data however it wants. You would need a unique identifier to match the data later, so that could either be generated by the CGI script and sent along with the data, or it could be generated by the servlet and returned to the CGI script. Either way, the CGI script would then redirect the user to the RAP entry point, passing the unique ID as a URL parameter. In your RAP entry point, you can get the URL parameter with something like: RWT.getRequest().getParameter("uniqueId");
Since all of this is not really related to RAP, I would be glad to discuss offline.
Cole
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