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**Isomorphic** · 28 Dec 2011, 13:04

What version is this? These line numbers don't exist in 3.x or seemingly in other versions. You may be using older .jar files due to a faulty install.

**PerJansson** · 24 Jan 2012, 01:29

We're using the evaluation Enterprise Edition version "SC_SNAPSHOT-2012-01-20_v8.3d/EVAL Deployment 2012-01-20".

It seems like there's a problem with the code in the method

Code:

com.isomorphic.contentexport.PdfExport.getPdfRenderer(String html, Map settings)

when trying to find out where the skin and it's stylesheet is located:

Code:

StringBuffer htmlFinal = new StringBuffer();
String skinName = settings.get("skinName").toString();
String dirSkin = "";

if (config.get("skin." + skinName + ".location") == null) {
    dirSkin = settings.get("dirDefaultSkin").toString();
    dirSkin = dirSkin.substring(dirSkin.indexOf("isomorphic"), dirSkin.length() - 1);
} else {
  dirSkin = config.get("skin." + skinName + ".location").toString();
}

Initially we had the NullPointerException due to the fact that we didn't set the "skinName" attribute in the DSRequest from our client code.
After fixing that we ran into another problem:
If property

Code:

skin.[skinName].location

isn't set the code demands that the "dirDefaultSkin" setting includes the string "isomorphic" which isn't the case in our setup (dirDefaultSkin = http://127.0.0.1:8888/advisor/sc/skins/Enterprise/)
The row that caused another Exception:

Code:

dirSkin = dirSkin.substring(dirSkin.indexOf("isomorphic"), dirSkin.length() - 1);

To work around that issue we hen we had to set the property

Code:

skin.[skinName].location

to point out were our skin was located.
BUT since the name of the skin is also used as the name of the stylesheet in the code above we had to set the skinName to "skin_styles" (the name of the stylesheet).

This is very confusing for us and we're wondering if this is something that will be fixed/changed in the future or are we forced to accept this limitations?

This is our example code to make the PDF export work:

Code:

DSRequest requestProperties = new DSRequest();
requestProperties.setAttribute("skinName", "skin_styles");
requestProperties.setAttribute("pdfName", "ExportPdfExample");

Label label = new Label("Hello Smart GWT!");
RPCManager.exportContent(label, requestProperties);

and in server.properties:

Code:

skin.skin_styles.location: advisor/sc/skins/Enterprise

**Isomorphic** · 7 Feb 2012, 07:04

The reported problems were solved, now, you can test this functionality with the following example:

Code:

DSRequest requestProperties = new DSRequest();
requestProperties.setSkinName("Enterprise");//here you can specify the selected skin. In other case, the skin will be the same as your project.
requestProperties.setExportFilename("test1");//here you can specify the name of the PDF object. By default is "export"

Label label = new Label("Hello Smart GWT");
RPCManager.exportContent(label, requestProperties);

If you want to use a custom skin from a custom location, you can use the property skin.{skinName}.location. For example:
skin.Enterprise1.location: myLocation/skins/Enterprise1.

Also, if you want to change the charset encoding for exportation, you can use the property contentExport.charset. For example:
contentExport.charset: ISO-8859. By default this property is UTF-8.

Both properties are in server.properties.

These fixes will be available in 3.0p and 3.1d SmartGWT versions going forward.

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