GeoEnrichment Service - Create Report

DonCavinessGeo

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

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):

<SPAN class="token function">esriRequest</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN> 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; handleAs<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'blob'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; content<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> myArgs<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; navigator<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">msSaveBlob</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>blob<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'myfile.pdf'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">else</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">var</SPAN> link <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> document<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">createElement</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"a"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">var</SPAN> url <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> URL<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">createObjectURL</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>blob<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">// Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; link<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">setAttribute</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"download"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">this</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>fileName<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; link<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>style <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"visibility:hidden"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; document<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>body<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">appendChild</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>link<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; link<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">click</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; document<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>body<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">removeChild</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>link<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
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