Document viewer issues

[GLee]

I love the document viewer, but it's very picky about where the URL comes from. Even if I have a PDF servlet running on the same server where the app with the document viewer is running, it complains that I it's unable to load files because of CORS. I solved that by adding a HTTP header on the servlet for Access-Control-Allow-Origin, it's now complaining that it's not permitted to open the file because ??? I have no idea, because the error messages are so terse. All it says is "not permitted to load." Great! That helps. I think it might be because the servlet's URL is http and the main app's URL is https.

So, I've decided to give up and just load PDF files from the operating system. Can somebody supply some code that will allow me to load PDF files dynamically into the document viewer without using anything on the network? It't too difficult to debug otherwise.

[Melloware]

Yep this example has 3 tabs.

http://primefaces.org/showcase-ext/sect ... /basic.jsf

You want either the Resource example:

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<pe:documentViewer height="500" library="books" name="hood.pdf"/>

Or the streamed content example:

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 <pe:documentViewer height="500" value="#{basicDocumentViewerController.content}" download="#{basicDocumentViewerController.downloadFileName}"/>

[GLee]

Well, isn't the library="books" name="hood.pdf" actually loading a file from the application (war file) rather than the OS?

I need the ability to load files from the OS by supplying a path since the files will be changing all the time. It would be impossible to imbed all these files within the application.

[Melloware]

The use the resource example then you can load whatever you want from the OS:

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 <pe:documentViewer height="500" value="#{basicDocumentViewerController.content}" download="#{basicDocumentViewerController.downloadFileName}"/>