GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report

Question

I am working with the Create Report functionality of the GeoEnrichment service and I have run into an issue I'm not sure how to solve.  I can make the request to create the report using the esri.request class.  I am successful in submitting and generating the a pdf report, however I'm not sure how to display the pdf.  The result is a report is encoded as a binary byte-stream. The result of the CreateReport method is a binary byte-stream where the PDF or Excel report are returned directly. The calling application will have to handle the response and present and/or save the binary output.

Does anyone know or can point me in the right direction as to how I can display this pdf in a browser window. I have been unable to locate any documentation in any of the Esri help for the GeoEnrichment or JavaScript API.

Anonymous User · Answer

Alternatively, you can use the blob type with your esriRequest like this (it will download the file and the user can click to open in browser): esriRequest({ handleAs: 'blob', content: myArgs, url: 'https://geoenrich.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/geoenrichmentserver/geoenrichment/createreport' }).then(function(response) { if (response instanceof Blob) { var blob = new Blob([response], { type: 'application/pdf' }); if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+ navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, 'myfile.pdf'); } else { var link = document.createElement("a"); var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob); link.setAttribute("href", url); if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute link.setAttribute("download", this.fileName); } link.style = "visibility:hidden"; document.body.appendChild(link); link.click(); document.body.removeChild(link); } }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ }); ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

VenkataSrikanthDasari · Answer

Identify the latest downloaded file from the downloads folder and then open in a browser by using

window.open method in Javascript..

Cheers,
Srikanth Dasari