I am using docxtpl to generate a word document, and wondering how a user can download this file once generated using cherrypy, please see my code below.
The only solution I could come up with is to save it to the www folder and create a link to the location, but I am sure this can be simplified.
import os, os.path
import random
import string
import cherrypy
from docxtpl import DocxTemplate
import sys
from auth import AuthController, require, member_of, name_is
import socket
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
cherrypy.config.update({'server.socket_port': 8000})
cherrypy.server.socket_host = '0.0.0.0'
cherrypy.engine.restart()
class Root(object):
_cp_config = {
'tools.sessions.on': True,
'tools.auth.on': True }
@cherrypy.expose()
def default(self, **kwargs):
print kwargs
if kwargs.get('csa_no'):
# print kwargs.get('csa_no')
tpl=DocxTemplate('csa_tpl.docx')
sd = tpl.new_subdoc()
p = sd.add_paragraph('This 1st insert')
sd2 = tpl.new_subdoc()
p = sd2.add_paragraph('This 2nd insert')
context1 = {
'date': 'jkh',
'company_name' : 'Test Footer',
'cost' : '10,000',
'project_description': kwargs['project_description'],
'site': kwargs['site'],
'sp': kwargs['sp'],
'wo': kwargs['WO'],
'contract_manager': kwargs['contract_manager'],
'csa_no': kwargs['csa_no'],
'variation_reason': kwargs['variation_reason'],
'variation_scope_of_works': kwargs['variation_scope_of_works'],
'Initial_Contract_Value': '$300,000',
'variation_total': '$20,000',
'Ammended_Contract_Value': '$320,000',
'project_manager': kwargs['project_manager'],
'construction_manager': 'Dane Wilson',
'date': '30/04/2016',
}
tpl.render(context1)
file_name_with_path = '/var/www/html/csa_documents/' + kwargs['sp'] + '-'+ kwargs['WO'] + '_' + kwargs['site'] + '_-_' + 'CSA' + kwargs['csa_no'] +'.docx'
file_name = kwargs['sp'] + '-'+ kwargs['WO'] + '_' + kwargs['site'] + '_-_' + 'CSA' + kwargs['csa_no'] +'.docx'
print file_name
print file_name_with_path
tpl.save(file_name_with_path)
return '''
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta charset="utf-8" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
<link href="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquerymobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquerymobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile.min.js"></script>
<title>Broadspectrum</title>
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="header" data-theme="b">
<h1>TCSS Gateway</h1>
</div>
<h2>Success</h2>
<a href="http://192.168.1.7">another submission</a>
<a href="http://192.168.1.7/csa_documents/%s">Download & Review CSA Document</a>
</body>
''' % file_name
The short answer is that basically you need to write some in-memory stream (e.g. BytesIO), pre-set some HTTP headers and return a file_generator.
Your question is almost the same as one asked a month ago and here is my answer to it.
I've drafted a little snippet for you in python3:
from io import BytesIO
import cherrypy
from cherrypy.lib import file_generator
from docxtpl import DocxTemplate
class GenerateDocx:
@cherrypy.expose
def build_docx(self, *args, **kwargs):
iostream = BytesIO()
tpl = DocxTemplate('csa_tpl.docx')
...
# build your tpl here
...
tpl.get_docx().save(iostream)
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Type'] = (
# set the correct MIME type for docx
'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument'
'.wordprocessingml.document'
)
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = (
'attachment; filename={fname}.docx'.format(
fname='put your file name here'
)
)
iostream.seek(0)
return file_generator(iostream)
UPD: I've just checked that the response body gets automatically wrapped with file_generator if the return value of a handler has read() method support