Always something new. I have bin using the Record Links to store pointers to scanned files, created pdf files all other files that the user would like to link to a record and store centrally. I have the option to import the file to a BLOB field and also to a separate tables in a different database.
What I do next is to install a single aspx page to an internal web server and the URL in the Record Links table points me to this page with parameters that define where to get the centrally stored file. This aspx page can fetch the file from the database or through web services from NAV BLOB field.
My first version of this was to have everything executed on the client side. I did not see that working for NAV 2013 where we can have users that authenticate outside the windows domain. The same is for NAV 2009 R2 where the Role Tailored Client is connecting to the service tier via WAN.
So I moved the functionality to the service tier and wanted to use UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD to transfer the files to and from the client. Here I hit a wall. There is a size limit to the files that I can upload and download.
I therefore looked at the code I had created earlier and modified it a little bit.
[code]PROCEDURE UploadClientFile@1100408005(FileName@1100408000 : Text[1024]) ServerFileName : Text[1024];
VAR
Document@1100408011 : BigText;
ServerConvert@1100408010 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.Convert";
ServerBase64File@1100408009 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File";
ServerDocumentFile@1100408008 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File";
ClientConvert@1100408007 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.Convert" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientFile@1100408006 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File" RUNONCLIENT;
ServerFileStream@1100408005 : File;
ServerBase64FileName@1100408004 : Text[1024];
OutStr@1100408002 : OutStream;
BEGIN
Document.ADDTEXT(ClientConvert.ToBase64String(ClientFile.ReadAllBytes(FileName)));
ServerBase64FileName := ThreeTier.ServerTempFileName(”,”);
ServerFileStream.WRITEMODE(TRUE);
ServerFileStream.CREATE(ServerBase64FileName);
ServerFileStream.CREATEOUTSTREAM(OutStr);
Document.WRITE(OutStr);
ServerFileStream.CLOSE;
ServerFileName := ThreeTier.ServerTempFileName(”,”);
ServerDocumentFile.WriteAllBytes(
ServerFileName,
ServerConvert.FromBase64String(
ServerBase64File.ReadAllText(ServerBase64FileName)));
ServerBase64File.Delete(ServerBase64FileName);
END;
PROCEDURE DownloadServerFile@1100408017(FileName@1100408000 : Text[1024]) ClientFileName : Text[1024];
VAR
Document@1100408002 : BigText;
ServerFile@1100408003 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File";
ServerConvert@1100408001 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.Convert";
ClientBase64File@1100408006 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientStreamWriter@1100408007 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.StreamWriter" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientConvert@1100408010 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.Convert" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientFile@1100408009 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.File" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientPath@1100408011 : DotNet "’mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.System.IO.Path" RUNONCLIENT;
ClientBase64FileName@1100408008 : Text[1024];
SubString@1100408004 : Text[1024];
Pos@1100408005 : Integer;
BEGIN
Document.ADDTEXT(ServerConvert.ToBase64String(ServerFile.ReadAllBytes(FileName)));
ClientBase64FileName := ThreeTier.ClientTempFileName(”,’b64′);
ClientStreamWriter := ClientBase64File.CreateText(ClientBase64FileName);
Pos := 1;
WHILE Pos < Document.LENGTH DO BEGIN
Pos := Pos + Document.GETSUBTEXT(SubString,Pos,MAXSTRLEN(SubString));
ClientStreamWriter.Write(SubString);
END;
ClientStreamWriter.Close;
ClientFileName :=
ClientPath.GetTempPath +
SigningTools.RemovePath(FileName);
ClientFile.WriteAllBytes(
ClientFileName,
ClientConvert.FromBase64String(
ClientBase64File.ReadAllText(ClientBase64FileName)));
END;
[/code]
The problem is that this method is not fast enough. Perhaps someone reading this has a faster solution. I convert the file to base64 and use BigText variable to move it from and to the service tier. This will support large files but it is slow.
