Implement Restful service to convert the office document to pdf and then show it in a html page. JodConverter and PDF.js are used in this project.

--- GET GetDOCViewerRESTService

Returns a pdf file or html page converted from the document located in the URL indicated by the OutputType and reference parameters.

Example Request GET http://c0043436.itcs.com:8080/DOCViewer/rest/GetDOCViewerRESTService?OutputType=html&reference=http://c0043436.itcs.com:8080/DOCViewer/web/tmp/test.doc

OutputType : When set to html, a html page will be rendered to show the pdf file converted from the document. When set to pdf, the pdf file converted from the document will be downloaded.Example Values: html, pdf.

reference: Specifies the URL where the document to be converted is located. Note the document could be office document like .doc, .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files.Example Values: http://c0043436.itcs.com:8080/DOCViewer/web/tmp/test.doc

--- POST PostDOCViewerRESTService

Converts the uploaded document and Returns URL in json data pointing to a html page to show the document. Note this method only expect office documents like .doc, .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files.

Example Request POST http://c0043436.itcs.com:8080/DOCViewer/rest/PostDOCViewerRESTService

Return Values

data.URL:points to a html page to show the document.

data.error:The error message if only error occurs

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.js"></script>

   function convertFile() {

           var file = $('input[name="file"]')[0].files[0];

            var submitData = new FormData();
            submitData.append('file', file);

             $.ajax({
                url: '/rest/PostDOCViewerRESTService',
                data: submitData,
                cache: false,
                contentType: false,
                processData: false,
                type: 'POST',
                success: function(data)
                {
                    if(data.error !=null && data.error.length > 0)
                    {
                        alert(data.error);
                    }
                    else if (window.confirm("Do you want to view the doc in the       html?")) {
                        window.location.href=data.URL;
                    };
                },
                error: function(e)
                {
                   alert(e.message);
                }
              });

     };

</script>