Controller and OutputStream

[fmourioux]

Hi,

I want to show after passing in my controller a pdf, png, gif or jpeg file create using itext/jfreegraph in my controller.

What is the best way ?

Is it possible to return a stream instead of a view ? Must i use a simple servlet instead but in that case can i use my managers ?

Thanks,

Fabien.

[tareq]

Check the "countries" sample application. There is a good exemple of using the pdf view.

[Rod Johnson]

If you're doing something unusual for which no view (custom or out-of-the-box) is appropriate, you can return null from your Controller, which tells the Spring MVC framework that you've taken care of writing to the ServletOutputStream yourself.