Show PDF from RFC

Question

Hi,
I´ve installed ESS BP on my portal and some of the reports are showed as a PDF file, and I was wondering how did they do that?
Seem like the rfc send the file, like a binary sent thru the function.
Any idea? Any sample how to do that?
Thanks,
Edu

Answer 1

Eduardo,
I've used a binary type in a similar situation. The RFC retrievers a BINARY type and my Web Dynpro applications show the PDF result.
Following my Web Dynpro code:
IWDCachedWebResource resource = WDWebResource.getWebResource 
       (wdContext.currentZ_Pdf_Report_OutputElement().getPdf(),
WDWebResourceType.getWebResourceTypeForFileExtension("pdf"));
resource.setResourceName(this.getDescriptionReport());
// Create a External Window with the URL destination
IWDWindow window = wdComponentAPI.getWindowManager().
       createExternalWindow(resource.getURL(), this.getDescriptionReport(), true);
// Eliminate some features of the window
window.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.ADDRESS_BAR);
window.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.MENU_BAR);
window.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.STATUS_BAR);
window.removeWindowFeature(WDWindowFeature.TOOL_BAR);
window.setWindowSize(780,430);
window.setWindowPosition(20,140);
window.open();
Regards,
Luciano