[Openinteract-dev] OpenInteract 1.60 filehandle contents sending patch

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

Hi,

I modified the OpenInteract.pm function send_static_file() in OI 1.60 to allow 
sending a filehandle instead of passing a filename or returning file 
contents.

I have a system that generates a temporary file with a filehandle and when the 
temporary filehandle object goes out of scope, the temporary file is 
destroyed. This was a problem if I wanted to send the contents of the file to 
the client. I had two options:

1. 
Modifying $R->{page}{content_type} and returning the file contents from the OI 
Handler. This is a problem, I don't want to load an entire file in the 
memory. 

2.
Modifying $R->{page}{content_type} and using $R->{page}{send_file} for 
returning contents of a file. This only allows the filename and since I'm 
using a temporary filehandle object that goes out of scope, I had to modify 
OpenInteract.pm to allow returning filehandles instead of filenames.

Is there a better method? I think OpenInteract was not scalable enough in this 
kind of fundamental issue. Is this different in OI2?

-- 
Sincerely,

Teemu Arina

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