Re: Alternative to using Blob on Client Side Code

You must first write a servlet that sends the binary to the user

Then when the user clicks on the button you call the servlet with the
proper parameter.

Here is an excerpt from our servlet implementation

response.reset();

response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
response.setContentLength(contentLength);
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment;
filename=\"" + filename + "\"");
output = new
BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
int data = input.read();
while (data != -1)
{
output.write(data);
data = input.read();
}
output.flush();

When the user clicks on the button you must call a

On May 30, 8:55 am, Myth17 <nitishupr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was trying to fetch a Feed object which had 'Blob' as one of its
> attribute(A random file attachment). However I realized that we cant use
> Blob on the Client side code.
> What should I use as an alternative?
>
> Perhaps I could pass byte arrays around but that would be a large amount of
> data for multiple feeds. I would want user to click on a button on the Feed
> view to fetch the Attachment. How can I solve the problem?

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