RE: How to suppress Velocity Transforms?

Thanks Jeff, Doug and Johan,

That fix worked like a champ!!  It's funny how this issue was really 
centered around Velocity, not Maverick...

Thanks again -- really appreciate the quick and accurate replies,
Dan


At 11:44 AM 8/25/2003 -0700, Schnitzer, Jeff wrote:
>It should be possible to call $response.setContentType() anywhere near
>the top of the template.  Without Maverick transforms (which can change
>the output flow considerably), this works the same way that JSP works:
>
>.  The servlet container provides a buffer of some size into which
>output is written.
>
>.  When the buffer becomes full, it is "committed" and flushed to the
>output stream; all output after that is sent directly to the output
>stream.
>
>.  Until the buffer is committed, any changes can be made to the http
>response headers, but afterwards it's illegal - the headers have already
>been written.
>
>The "standard" JSP (and Velocity) pattern is to set the content-type in
>the template itself.  For XSLT this is not really an option, so an
>"output-type" attribute on the maverick config node is used.
>
>Jeff Schnitzer
>[email protected]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johan Lundberg [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:27 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Mav-user] How to suppress Velocity Transforms?
> >
> > Hi Dan
> >
> > Jeff told me about the following trick some time ago. I needed to get
>the
> > SVG plugin to understand that SVG content was coming instead of html.
> > Below
> > is the first line of my velocity template:
> >
> > $response.setContentType("image/svg+xml")<?xml version="1.0"?>
> > ....the rest of my SVG document...
> >
> > /johan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Finkelstein" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:49 PM
> > Subject: [Mav-user] How to suppress Velocity Transforms?
> >
> >
> > > Hi --
> > >
> > > I know this is a really dumb question, esp considering that I've
>been
> > using
> > > and relying on Maverick for over 1 1/2 years, but here goes
>anyway...
> > >
> > > Maverick transforms my Velocity templates (the .vm files) and these
>are
> > > displayed without any problem.  What I want to do is, in one
>particular
> > > place, is to apply the Velocity transform, and then return it as a
> > > text/plain file instead of html.
> > >
> > > In, maverick.xml, the section looks like:
> > >
> > > <command name="RemoteAccess">
> > > <controller class="blah.controllers.admin.RemoteAccess"/>
> > > <view name="success" content-type="text/plain"
> > > path="admin/remoteAccessResponse.vm"/>
> > > </command>
> > >
> > > When I run RemoteAccess.m, it is identified to the browser as
>html....
> > Any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> > >
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