Hello everyone,
I was looking into the generatePDFOutput service using C# .Net, my requirements are to pass XML data file to the XDP and genrate the PDF file the problem currently I am running into is it generate the PDF on the server but and does not send anything to the client,
PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec();
pdfOptions.fileURI = "C:\\temp\\sampleform.pdf";
my requirements are to get the PDF stream back to the client application and unfortunately this is not happening,
var outblob= client.generatePDFOutput(TransformationFormat.PDF,
"SampleForm.xdp",
"repository:///Applications/DHS_FAST_COSMOS/1.0/eForms/form/",
pdfOptions,
renderOptions,
inData,
out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc,
out generatePDFOutputResultDoc,
out outResult);
the output BLOB objects does not has byte streams, My question am I using the correct service? how can i make the server return the PDF bytes.
here is my complete code
var endpointAddress = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://<sever:port>/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom");
OutputServiceClient client = new OutputServiceClient();
client.Endpoint.Address = endpointAddress;
BasicHttpBinding binding = (BasicHttpBinding)client.Endpoint.Binding;
binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Basic;
binding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly;
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 4000000;
binding.MaxBufferSize = 4000000;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = 4000000;
binding.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Mtom;
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "training";
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "password";
BLOB inData = new BLOB();
string inputFileName = @"C:\\Temp\sampleform.xml";
FileStream fs = new FileStream(inputFileName, FileMode.Open);
//Get the length of the file stream and create a byte array
int len = (int)fs.Length;
byte[] byteArray = new byte[len];
//Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream
fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len);
//Populate the BLOB object, NOTE the file is successfully writing on the server temp directory
inData.binaryData = byteArray;
//Set PDF run-time options
PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec();
pdfOptions.fileURI = "C:\\temp\\sampleform.pdf";
//pdfOptions.fileURI = "/DHS_FAST_COSMOS/1.0/eForms/form/SampleForm.xdp";
//Set rendering run-time options
RenderOptionsSpec renderOptions = new RenderOptionsSpec();
renderOptions.cacheEnabled = true;
renderOptions.renderAtClient = "Yes";
renderOptions.PDFAConformance = PDFAConformance.A;
renderOptions.PDFARevisionNumber = PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1;
pdfOptions.lookAhead = 300;
pdfOptions.recordLevel = 1;
BLOB generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc = new BLOB();
BLOB generatePDFOutputResultDoc = new BLOB();
OutputResult outResult = new OutputResult();
//Create a PDF Document
var outblob= client.generatePDFOutput(TransformationFormat.PDF,
"SampleForm.xdp",
"repository:///Applications/DHS_FAST_COSMOS/1.0/eForms/form/",
pdfOptions,
renderOptions,
inData,
out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc,
out generatePDFOutputResultDoc,
out outResult);
//trying to populate a byte array with BLOB data, NOTE binaryData is null
byte[] outByteArray = generatePDFOutputResultDoc.binaryData;
