ajax resource response is gibberish

[Michael Anthony Dorrian, modificado hace 12 años.]

I basically want to create a download link and create the file as described here:
PDF Download Example

The following like the example shown in the link above works perfectly

location.href = '<portlet:resourceurl><portlet:param name="reportType" value="pdf" /></portlet:resourceurl>
[code]
But unfortunately because i am passing table data as a long formatted string for one of the parameters the method above breaks in this case  even when encoding the url...
So the i tried to create an ajax equivalent(as seen below) which passes the parameters(even long) perfectly but the response returns gibberish..
[code]
jQuery.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "&lt;%=renderResponse.encodeURL(testURL.toString())%&gt;",
data: {'reportType' : pdf} ,
success: function(response) {
        //this should open a download excel dialog box but returns gibberish
	location.href = response..responseText;
	
    
    }

Anyone have any ideas?...any other alternative ideas are also welcome

[jelmer kuperus, modificado hace 12 años.]

Something like this ?

<form name="<portlet:namespace />myForm" action="<portlet:resourceURL>" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="reportType" value="what ever">
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
     document.<portlet:namespace />myForm.submit();
</script>

Put it in an iframe if needed

[Michael Anthony Dorrian, modificado hace 12 años.]

jelmer kuperus:

Something like this ?

<form name="<portlet:namespace />myForm" action="<portlet:resourceURL>" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="reportType" value="what ever">
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
     document.<portlet:namespace />myForm.submit();
</script>

Put it in an iframe if needed

Thank you!!...worked perfectly..