Showing PDF without using InteractiveForm

Question

Hi experts,
I receive PDF content from a RFC in the "XSTRING" format.
I can show this in an interactive form (by mapping the pdfSource property of my InteractiveForm with the Xstring), but then we need to install ACF on all the PCs of the customer.
So what I would like to do is display a PDF not included in a Web Dynpro.
I read in this forum (from Bogdan) that this could be a solution:
byte[] pdfContent={here document is created};
IWDCachedWebResource pdfResource=WDWebResource.getWebResource
    (pdfContent,WDWebResourceType.PDF);
wdComponentAPI.getWindowManager().createExternalWindow(
     pdfResource.getURL(),"Report View",true).open();
But how can I convert my Xstring format to byte[] ?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Regards,
Julien

Answer 1

Hi Julien.
Yesterday I can solved it.
I found a solution in a post, and it works.
I am only coded this in the wddoInit, and I use a FileDownload UI element.
//segun nota
  /* The FileDownload UI element requires: */
  final IWDAttributeInfo fileAttrInfo = wdContext.nodeOutput().getNodeInfo()
          .getAttribute("Bin_File");   
  final IWDModifiableBinaryType pdfType =
     (IWDModifiableBinaryType)
       fileAttrInfo
        .getModifiableSimpleType();
  /* In addition the FileDownload
UI element needs for  defined resource types
  pdfType.setFileName( "MyPdfFile.pdf" );
  pdfType.setMimeType( WDWebResourceType.PDF );          
    //@@end
"bin_file" is the xstring parameters that return my RFC module function.
Really I don't know the difference with your sample (I am newbbie in Java and webdynpro) but this code is the way that works in my aplication.
Thanks a lot anyway!
regards.
Leandro