How to display binary content in EP 5.0?

Question

I  would like to display binary content in a http-response. Formerly using a BSP-Application in Web-AS I achieved this by something like
call method mserver->response->set_header_field(
            name = 'Content-Type' value = mimetype ).
call method mserver->response->set_data( data = mimedata ).
Within the context of AbstractPortalComponent I dont find a way to set the content type in a way to directly display binary content in a PRT-Context.
What did I miss ..?

Answer 1

I know this is a little out of date but you can do the following:
/* Get the underlying HttpServletReponse object */
HttpServletResponse httpresp = response.getRequest().getServletResponse(true);
          try {
// This seems to be required to get rid of any buffered
// content
               httpresp.reset();
//Set appropriate content type here
               httpresp.setContentType("application/pdf");
//write out data
//in this case just a PDF in string format
               httpresp.getWriter().write(data);
          } catch (Exception e) {
// handle errors appropriately
<b>NOTE:</b> I haven't tested this in a productive environment so test this fully before implementing
Michael