We are in the process of converting over to using the XSLT compiler for page generation. I have a Xalan Java extention to exploit the CSSDK and capture some meta data we have stored in the Extended Attributes for output to the page. No problems in getting the EA's rendered to the output file.
The problem is that I don't know how to dynamically capture the file path and name of the output file.
So just as POC, I have the CSVPath hard coded to the output file in my Java extension. Here's a code sample:
CSSimpleFile sourceFile = (CSSimpleFile)client.getFile(new CSVPath("/some-path-to-the-output.jsp"));
Can someone point me in the CSSDK to where I could capture the output file?
I found the answer.
First, get or create your CSClient. You can use the examples provided in the cssdk/samples. I tweaked one so that I captured the CSClient in the method getClientForCurrentUser(). Watch out for SOAP vs Java connections. In development, I was using a SOAP connection and for the make_toolkit build, the Java connection was required for our purposes.
Check the following snippet. The request CSClient is captured in the static variable client.
CSSimpleFile sourceFile = (CSSimpleFile)client.getFile(new CSVPath(XSLTExtensionContext.getContext().getOutputDirectory().toString() + "/" + XSLTExtensionContext.getContext().getOutputFileName()));
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We need a Java code which automatically converts csv files into pbix files, so they can be opened and further worked on in the PowerBI Desktop. Now, I know PowerBI offers this super cool feature, which converts csv files and many other formats into pbix manually. However, we need a function which automatically converts our reports directly into pbix, so that no intermediate files need to be created and stored somewhere.
We have already been able to develop a function with three parameters: The first one corresponds to the selected report, from our database; the second corresponds to the directory, in which the converted report should be generated; and finally the third one is the converted output file itself. The two first parameters work well and the code is able to generate a copy of any report we select into any directory we select. However, it is able to generate csv files only. Any other format will have the same size as the csv and won't be able to open.
This is what we've tried so far for the conversion part of the code:
Util.writeFile("C:\\" + "test.csv", byteString);
The above piece of code works just fine, however csv is not what we wanted, the original reports are already in csv format anyway.
Util.writeFile("C:\\" + "test.pbix", byteString);
Util.writeFile("C:\\" + "test.pdf", byteString);
Util.writeFile("C:\\" + "test.xlsx", byteString);
Each of the three lines above generates one file in the indicated format, however each of the generated files are just as large as its corresponding csv(but should be much larger) and therefore are unable to open.
File file = new File("C:\\" + "test1.csv");
File file2 = new File("C:\\" + "test1.pbix");
file.renameTo(file2);
The above piece of code does not generate any file at all, but I thought it could be worth mentioning it, as it doesn't throw any exception at all either.
P.S. We would also be interested in a java code which converts csv in any other BI reporting software besides PowerBI, like Tableau, BIRT, Knowage, etc.
P.S.2 The first piece of code uses objects of a class (sailpoint.tools.Util) which is apparently only available for those who have access to Sailpoint.
So I am working on this project where I want to store an audio file in a LARGEBLOB on a database, the size of the file is limited to about 10MB, and be able to load the data through a java servlet that allows for playing of the media file.
Most of the sources I have been able to find suggests storing it locally, however, I want to avoid this solution based on the fact that I'd like to rebuild the website somewhere completely different and not have to rely on the folder structure to be the same.
The issues that I am encountering area mainly that the web browser misinterprets the binary data provided by the servlet. It manages to retrieve that it is an audio file of some sort, however; it is unable to determine the type of audio file, which leads me to believe that the servlet is either not providing enough data, or that I am not doing enough to instruct the web browser on how to play the file.
For example, if I have a file audio.mp3 which I have uploaded to the database into a table Tracks and stored in a column TrackFile. Assuming the query of selecting the right song from the table, what data would the servlet need to provide in order for the browser to play the file when accessing the servlet. Currently when I load the servlet, the browser seems to assume that the type is audio/mpeg instead of audio/mp3. The content currently delivered by the servlet also looks something like this:
response.setHeader("Content-Type", this.getServletContext().getMimeType(t.getTrackName() + '.' + t.getFileType()));
response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(t.getTrackData().length));
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + t.getTrackName() + '.' + t.getFileType() + "\"");
response.getOutputStream().write(t.getTrackData());
where t is an object which holds all the data which can be retrieved from the database table about a specific track. The method getTrackData() returns a byte[] with contents of the column TrackFile in it. The source of this method is: link, although I adapted it in order to make it work with audio files, although it doesn't.
Are there any obvious things that I should have caught onto based on the fact that I can't get it to play back the file or is what I want to achieve generally impossible so to say?
Eurostat data can be downloaded via a REST API. The response format of the API is a XML file formatted according to the SDMX-ML standard. With SAS, very conveniently, one can access XML files with the libname statement and the XML or XMLv2 engine.
Currently, I am using the xmlv2 engine together with the automap= option to generate an xmlmap to access the data. It works. But the resulting SAS data sets are very unstructured, and for another data set to be downloaded the data structure might change. Also the request might depend on the DSD-file that Eurostat provides for each database item within a different XML file.
Here comes the code:
%let path = /your/working/directory/;
filename map "&path.map.txt";
filename resp "&path.resp.txt";
proc http
URL="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/data/cdh_e_fos/..PC.FOS1.BE/?startperiod=2005&endPeriod=2011"
METHOD="GET"
OUT=resp;
run;quit;
libname resp XMLv2 automap=REPLACE xmlmap=map;
proc datasets;
copy out=WORK in=resp;
run;quit;
With the code above, you can view all downloaded data in your WORK library. Its a mess.
To download another time series change parameters of the URL according to Eurostat's description.
So here is my question
Is there a way to easily generate a xmlmap from a call to the DSD file so that the data are stored in a well structured way?
As the SDMX-ML standard is widely used in public institutions such as the ECB, Eurostat, OECD... I am wondering if somebody has implemented requests to the databases, already. I know about the tool from Banca Italia which uses a javaObject. However, I was wondering if there might be a solution without the javaObject.
I have an app which allows users to upload a file. User is sent to a preview page where they can download the file they just uploaded to sorta verify that things are correct. But for some reason the filename is not correct when it reaches the servlet, what could cause this?
$('a[id^=dl_link_]').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('#dl_form input[name=file_name]').val($(this).text());
$('#dl_form input[name=uid]').val(upload.tempId);
$('#dl_form').submit();
});
When I add logs, I see that the file name is correct; ie "this is a test file.docx".
But when this data gets to the backend I get the following:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/yao/__TEMP__/upload_temp/1111/0gGNMY8PcAWEs3M/this�is�a�test�file.docx (No such file or directory)
The file path is constructed by combining parts together. The servlet receives the uid and the filename, everything else is from some other backend methods.
What could be the cause of this?
Maybe you need to call
encodeURIComponent()
on the file name. It'll convert the space chars to %20 and then be converted properly on the back end.
As I see the problem is related with the space character. This question might help you: accessing files with spaces in filename from java
I have the path to my XML file on my computer, but how can I use selenium (web automation tool) to inject the XML file ?
Usually how it is done (manually) is navigate to the URL and COPY AND PASTE the entire XML text into the provided text box..
Any ideas how to inject the file using automation ? There is no way to "drag" the XML file to the text box and I believe the way I'm thinking that it will work is very complicated.
I think this is actually what you want -
File xml = new File("xmlpath");
String url = xml.getAbsolutePath();
url = url.replace('\\', '/');
url = url.replace(" ", "%20");
String actual = "file:/" + url;
selenium.open(actual);
Then you should be able to get the xml using String theXML = selenium.getText("//rootxmlnode"); Then do what you will with it.
Check out the topic of Data Driven Testing to get you started. Something like this should get you going.
Selenium tool allows you to create an automatically generated code in Java.
So, you need to place any text in the provided text box and generate this Java-test code.
Next step is modifying of the generated test. You have to manually write a simplest code, which will read your XML file, get it contents and paste into the text box. The last thing is replacement (in the generated Java code of test!) of the mentioned above text-block to the contents of read XML.
A simplest way for reading file into a string is using Apache commons-io library.
For example: FileUtils.readFileToString(File file, String encoding) gives you a string object with contents of the file.