PDF Document as an Output Stream.

Question

Hi,
I have created a PDFwriter class that easily creates and writes a PDF document stream to a fileout stream.I am using JSP to do the same.
What i want to do now is directly send the stream to an output stream instead of a fileoutput stream. Question is which one??
How do i pass it to response obj, (response.setOutputStream(System.out) does not work)
I am Pasting some code so that you can understand what i mean( >> means next step)
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4.rotate(), 10, 10, 30, 20); >>
File file = new File("C:\\ePro\\PDFGenerator\\Report.pdf"); >> document.open();
Table table = new Table(9); >> table.setPadding(0); >> table.setSpacing(1); >>
table.addCell(new cell ("Any String",fontF); >> document.add(table); >> document.close(); >>
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(file));
The above code creates a PDF file on my disk which i can then redirect. Eg
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.sendRedirect("Report.pdf");
What i want now is to replace the constructor for PDFWriter with a different Output stream and directly write it to browser.
Please help as i am stuck for quite some time now....

Answer 1

byte[] pdfContent = PDFProcessor.getPDFStream(roleID,report,Integer.parseInt(languageID));
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
System.out.println("Writing PDF");
out.write(pdfContent);
out.flush();