I just want to ask you how to simply upload a .csv file to a server .php file. In all other languages is straightforward, here I'm having a lot of troubles, I don't want to do complex things, only upload and see the server response.
Thanks.
Here's my code, I used this library https://github.com/daltoniam/SwiftHTTP
let fileUrl = NSURL.fileURLWithPath("/Users/mypath")
var request = HTTPTask()
request.POST("http://server.com/upload.php", parameters: ["file": HTTPUpload(fileUrl: fileUrl)], success: {(response: HTTPResponse) -> Void in
},failure: {(error: NSError, response: HTTPResponse?) -> Void in
})
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I have a simple service on Angular 2 and Typescript that requests Excel files to a server and then opens a download file dialogue for the user. However, as it is currently, the file becomes corrupt when downloaded.
When downloaded, it opens fine in OpenOffice and derivates, but throws a "File is Corrupt" error on Microsoft Excel, and asks if the user wants to recover as much as it can.
When Excel is prompted to recover the file, it does so successfully, and the recovered Excel has all rows and data that is expected for the Excel file. Comparing the recovered file against opening the file in OpenOffice and derivates evidence no outstanding differences.
The concrete Excel I am trying to download is generated with Apache POI in a microservice, then passed to the main backend and finally served to the frontend for the user to download. Both the backend and microservice are written in Java, through Spark Framework.
I made some tests on the backends, and concluded the problem is not the report generation nor the data transfer:
Asking the microservice to save the generated Excel in a file within the server and then opening such file (hereby file A) in Excel shows that file A is not corrupted.
Asking the main backend server to save the Excel file that it receives from the microservice in a file within itself and then opening such file in Excel (hereby file B) shows that file B is not corrupted.
Downloading both file A and file B through FileZilla from their respective servers yields completely uncorrupted files.
As such, I believe it is safe to assume the Excel becomes corrupted somewhere between the time the file is received on the frontend and the time the user downloads such file. Additionally, the Catalina logs do not evidence any error that might potentially be happening.
I have read several posts that deal with the issue, including a bug report (https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/14083) that included a workaround via XMLHTTPRequest. However, none of the workarounds detailed were successful in solving my issue.
Attached is the code I am using to both obtain the Excel file from the backend and serve it to the user. I am including both an XMLHTTPRequest and an Angular http call (within comments) since those are the two main ways I have been trying to make this work. Additionally, please do take into account the code has been altered to remove information I do not wish to make public.
download(body) {
let reply = Observable.create(observer => {
let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'URL', true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/json;charset=UTF-8');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'REDACTED');
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if(xhr.readyState === 4) {
if(xhr.status === 200) {
var contentType = 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet';
var blob = new Blob([xhr.response], { type: contentType });
observer.next(blob);
observer.complete();
}
else {
observer.error(xhr.response);
}
}
}
xhr.send(JSON.stringify(body));
});
return reply;
/*let headers = new Headers();
headers.set("Authorization", 'REDACTED');
headers.set("Accept", 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
let requestOptions :RequestOptions = new RequestOptions({headers: headers, responseType: ResponseContentType.Blob});
return this.http.post('URL', body, requestOptions);*/
}
Hereby is the code to prompt the user to download the Excel. It is currently made to work with the XMLHTTPRequest. Please do note that I have also attempted to download without resorting to FileSaver, with no luck.
downloadExcel(data) {
let body = {
/*REDACTED*/
}
this.service.download(body)
.subscribe(data => {
FileSaver.saveAs(data, "Excel.xlsx");
});
}
Hereby are the versions of the tools I am using:
NPM: 5.6.0
NodeJs: 8.11.3
Angular JS: ^6.1.0
Browsers used: Chrome, Firefox, Edge.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated. Any additional information you may need I will be happy to provide.
I think what you want is CSV format which open in Excel, update your sevice as follow:
You should tell Angular you are expecting a response of type blob (Binary Large Object) that is your Excel/Csv file.
Also make sure the URL/API on your server is set to accept content-type='text/csv'.
Here's an example with Angular 2.
#Injectable()
export class YourService {
constructor(private http: Http) {}
download() { //get file from the server
this.http.get("http://localhost/..", {
responseType: ResponseContentType.Blob,
headers: new Headers({'Content-Type', 'text/csv'})
}).subscribe(
response => {
var blob = new Blob([response.blob()], {type: 'text/csv'});
FileSaver.saveAs(blob, 'yourFileName.csv');
},
error => {
console.error('something went wrong');
}
);
}
}
Have you tried uploading/downloading your xls file as base64?
var encodedXLSToUpload = 'data:application/xls;base64,' + btoa(file);
Check this for more details: Creating a Blob from a base64 string in JavaScript
I have the following intent for an Alexa Skill and I need to read a .txt file from an external URL into a variable for Alexa to say it. This is what I have so far...
'PlayVoice': function() {
var url = "https://example.com/myfile.txt";
var output = 'Okay, here is the text file' + url;
this.response.speak(output);
this.emit(':responseReady');
},
Obviously, the only thing it does now is to read the actual URL.
I have tried using fs.readFile but I just get an error in the Alexa Skill. This is the code I tried:
'PlayVoice': function() {
var content;
fs.readFile('https://example.com/myfile.txt', function read(err, data) {
content = data;
this.response.speak(content);
}
this.emit(':responseReady');
},
Any help on how to simply read a text file into a variable I can get Alexa to speak via this.response.speak?
You can use request package.
something like this should help.
var request = require('request');
request('url/of/the/file', function (error, response, body) {
console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
console.log('body:', body); // contents of your file.
});
source : https://www.npmjs.com/package/request#super-simple-to-use
Also you'll need to add the package request to your skill's lambda.
To do that install the request package in the folder where your code is (lambda_function.js and all other files). Then create a zip of all the files (not the folder in which your files are) and upload it to your aws lambda.
I am working on meanjs application generated using https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack. I am trying to generate a .pdf file using phantomjs and download it to the browser.
The issue is that the downloaded .pdf file always shows the blank pages regardless of the number of pages. The original file on server is not corrupt. When I investigated further, found that the downloaded file is always much larger than the original file on the disk. Also this issue happens only with .pdf files. Other file types are working fine.
I've tried several methods like res.redirect('http://localhost:9000/assets/exports/receipt.pdf');, res.download('client\\assets\\exports\\receipt.pdf'),
var fileSystem = require('fs');
var stat = fileSystem.statSync('client\\assets\\exports\\receipt.pdf');
res.writeHead(200, {
'Content-Type': 'application/pdf',
'Content-Length': stat.size
});
var readStream = fileSystem.createReadStream('client\\assets\\exports\\receipt.pdf');
return readStream.pipe(res);
and even I've tried with https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static with no changes in the result.
I am new to nodejs. What is the best way to download a .pdf file to the browser?
Update:
I am running this on a Windows 8.1 64bit Computer
I had corruption when serving static pdfs too. I tried everything suggested above. Then I found this:
https://github.com/intesso/connect-livereload/issues/39
In essence the usually excellent connect-livereload (package ~0.4.0) was corrupting the pdf.
So just get it to ignore pdfs via:
app.use(require('connect-livereload')({ignore: ['.pdf']}));
now this works:
app.use('/pdf', express.static(path.join(config.root, 'content/files')));
...great relief.
Here is a clean way to serve a file from express, and uses an attachment header to make sure the file is downloaded :
var path = require('path');
var mime = require('mime');
app.get('/download', function(req, res){
//Here do whatever you need to get your file
var filename = path.basename(file);
var mimetype = mime.lookup(file);
res.setHeader('Content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=' + filename);
res.setHeader('Content-type', mimetype);
var filestream = fs.createReadStream(file);
filestream.pipe(res);
});
There are a couple of ways to do this:
If the file is a static one like brochure, readme etc, then you can tell express that my folder has static files (and should be available directly) and keep the file there. This is done using static middleware:
app.use(express.static(pathtofile));
Here is the link: http://expressjs.com/starter/static-files.html
Now you can directly open the file using the url from the browser like:
window.open('http://localhost:9000/assets/exports/receipt.pdf');
or
res.redirect('http://localhost:9000/assets/exports/receipt.pdf');
should be working.
Second way is to read the file, the data must be coming as a buffer. Actually, it should be recognised if you send it directly, but you can try converting it to base64 encoding using:
var base64String = buf.toString('base64');
then set the content type :
res.writeHead(200, {
'Content-Type': 'application/pdf',
'Content-Length': stat.size
});
and send the data as response.
I will try to put an example of this.
EDIT: You dont even need to encode it. You may try that still. But I was able to make it work without even encoding it.
Plus you also do not need to set the headers. Express does it for you. Following is the Snippet of API code written to get the pdf in case it is not public/static. You need API to serve the pdf:
router.get('/viz.pdf', function(req, res){
require('fs').readFile('viz.pdf', function(err, data){
res.send(data);
})
});
Lastly, note that the url for getting the pdf has extension pdf to it, this is for browser to recognise that the incoming file is pdf. Otherwise it will save the file without any extension.
Usually if you are using phantom to generate a pdf then the file will be written to disc and you have to supply the path and a callback to the render function.
router.get('/pdf', function(req, res){
// phantom initialization and generation logic
// supposing you have the generation code above
page.render(filePath, function (err) {
var filename = 'myFile.pdf';
res.setHeader('Content-type', "application/pdf");
fs.readFile(filePath, function (err, data) {
// if the file was readed to buffer without errors you can delete it to save space
if (err) throw err;
fs.unlink(filePath);
// send the file contents
res.send(data);
});
});
});
I don't have experience of the frameworks that you have mentioned but I would recommend using a tool like Fiddler to see what is going on. For example you may not need to add a content-length header since you are streaming and your framework does chunked transfer encoding etc.
What is a correct way to uploading files via custom input forms in Yesod?
I developed a frontend in AngularJS, and I pass data to and from the server via JSON objects. However, this does not work when uploading files. For this reason I resorted to forms.
Gathering different resources I ended up with the following code. On the client side I use the following function:
this.submitNewMeas = function() {
var selected_file = document.getElementById('measurements').files[0];
var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("measurementsFile", selected_file);
var response = $http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/measurements/'+this.currMedia.id,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
},
data: {
fd
},
transformRequest: formDataObject
});
...
};
And on the server side I receive data as follows:
postMeasurementsR :: MediaId -> Handler Value
postMeasurementsR mediaId = do
result <- runInputPost $ iopt fileField "measurementsFile"
case result of
Just fileInfo -> do
saveMeas fileInfo "measDir"
saveMeas :: FileInfo -> FilePath -> HandlerT App IO (FilePath)
saveMeas file dest = do
let filename = unpack $ fileName file
dest = dest </> filename
liftIO $ fileMove file dest
return filename
However this causes a server error
20/Nov/2014:13:40:15 +0100 [Error#yesod-core] <<loop>> #(yesod-core-1.4.3:Yesod.Core.Class.Yesod ./Yesod/Core/Class/Yesod.hs:502:5)
Status: 500 Internal Server Error 54.70131s
If I don't try to save the data, then the file information is received, and I am able to see the file name on the server.
I've successfully managed to upload files using Yesod forms, but when it comes to custom forms all my attempts so far have failed.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
dest = dest </> filename
That's the source of your infinite loop: you're saying "dest is defined as itself plus filename." What's happening is that you're shadowing the original declaration of dest. A simple solution is to call the second declaration something like dest' (or better yet, something even more informative).
All the documentation I have found related to creating a new file and putting the new file in a user's Google Drive folder is achieved with the user uploading a file and having the python script use MediaFileUpload to gather the file and put it in Drive.
I want to create a new file in my GAE code, and put that. For example my code renders a new XML string after hitting database, and I would like to take that string, make it a file and put in Google Drive.
Anyone working with something like this?
You should use a MediaInMemoryUpload instead, which is designed for this exact purpose. You can pass a string and a MIME type.
media = MediaInMemoryUpload('some data', 'text/plain')
Use following code, content is the string you're going to put. You don't have to use MediaFileUpload and python client library.
def update(content, file_id):
url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files/%s?uploadType=media' % file_id
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
'Content-Length': str(len(content)),
'Authorization': 'Bearer <oauth2 token>'
}
response = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload=content, method='PUT', headers=headers)
assert response.status_code == 200
return response.content