Merge pull request #2032 from rayluo/generic-csv

Create generic.csv
2018-11-01 08:18:35 -07:00
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 {{"""Usage:
  def controller():
      return {"": db().select(db.thing.ALL)}
 And then visit that controller with a .csv extention name
 """
 }}{{if len(response._vars)==1:}}{{
 # Not yet find a Python 2/3 compatible StringIO pattern,
 # we avoid this solution http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10/services#CSV
 # Here we buffer the entire csv file instead (it is your controller's job to limit the volume anyway),
 # based on: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#CSV-one-Table-at-a-time-
 content = response._vars[next(iter(response._vars))]
 response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/vnd.ms-excel'
 response.write(str(content), escape=False)
 }}{{pass}}