Opening a PDF/Excel/Word Doc/etc file in an iView

Question

Hello everyone,
I'd like to open an Excel or PDF or etc file in an iView.
Ideally i'd just create a URL iview (by the way i'm on EP5 SP6) and then just use that to link to a static file.
However, the issue i'm having is that we need to open the
file that was last created within a directory. So i created the code to detect the most recent file. Now i have the RID of the most recent file but i dont know how to display it. response.write() only takes a String. How do i get the file represented by the RID i have and open it in the iView?
Thanks alot,
Ale

Answer 1

Hi,
Here's the code i'm using that prints 208 to the screen:
IResource ir = ResourceFactory.getInstance().getResource(RID.getRID(theFile), rContext);
                              String ext = theFile.substring(theFile.length() - 4);
                              String contentType = "";
                              if(ext == ".xls")
                                   contentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
                              else if(ext == ".doc")
                                   contentType = "application/vnd.ms-word";
                              else if(ext == ".pdf")
                                   contentType = "application/pdf";
                              HttpServletResponse response = request.getServletResponse(true);
                              response.setContentType(contentType);
                              response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=DownloadReport" + ext);
                              java.io.InputStream is = ir.getContent().getInputStream();
                              java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
                              out.println(theFile);
                              out.println(new InputStreamReader(is).read());
                              out.close();
Any idea what is not working correctly?
Thanks a lot,
Alessandro