Introduce a mechanism to download report in different formats using iframe.

controllers/reports.py

@@ -20,10 +20,25 @@ def report_2():
     """Return the url arguments
     
     """
-    
-    s = ""
-    print request.post_vars
-    for k in request.post_vars:
-        s += "<br>%s: %s" %  (k, request.post_vars[k])
 
-    return '<h3>report_2</h3>'+s
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+    vars = request.vars
+    # user request a file with a specific format (latex,...)
+    # return to the browser na iframe balise with a new URL
+    # the browser will request the file locate at the url
+    if vars.Foo1My_format and vars.Foo1My_format == 'latex':
+
+        # remove the field use to select the file format
+        # in order to avoid circular loop
+        del vars.Foo1My_format
+
+        s = IFRAME(_id='MyId',
+                   _frameborder=0,
+                   _width=0,
+                   _height=0,
+                   _css='display:none;visibility:hidden;height:0px;',
+                   _src=URL('reports', 'report_2.latex', vars=vars)).xml()
+
+        return s
+
+    # standart reponse
+    return dict(test=vars)
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languages/fr-fr.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 'Last Page': 'Dernière Page',
 'Max Records': 'Max Records',
 'My Date': 'My Date',
+'My Format': 'My Format',
 'My Int': 'My Int',
 'My List': 'My List',
 'My String': 'My String',

models/dummy.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ dummy.define_table("foo1",
     Field('my_string', 'string'),
     Field('my_int', 'integer', requires=IS_INT_IN_RANGE(0, 100)),
     Field('my_date', 'date'),
-    Field('my_list', requires=IS_IN_SET(['a', 'b', 'c'])))
+    Field('my_format', default='html', requires=IS_IN_SET(['html', 'latex', 'pdf'])))

models/widgets.py

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ configurator = lambda tablename: dbui.to_gridPanel(db[tablename])
 gridNode.add_children(db.tables, func=configurator) 
 
 reportNode = dbui.Node(T('Reports'))
-node = dbui.Panel(html='salut ma poule')
+node = dbui.Panel(html="salut ma poule")
 reportNode.add_child(T('report_1'), node)
 
 fields = dbui.to_fields(dummy.foo1)

views/reports/report_2.html

+<h3>Report_2</h3>
+{{for k in test:}}
+  <br>{{=k}}: {{=test[k]}}{{pass}}

views/reports/report_2.latex

+\documentclass[english]{article}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage{babel}
+\begin{document}
+\section*{Test}
+\begin{enumerate}
+ {{for k in test:}}
+ \item {{=k}}: {{=test[k]}}{{pass}}
+\end{enumerate}
+\end{document}
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