Reading local file using Dekiscript

[moshiko]

Hi all

I want to create a dynamic wiki page by writing a script which creates a table according to a file which can be located like openning it in a web browser, like: file://path/filename.txt.

So i want to parse the file and then write a dynamic html according to it.
My quation is, how to access this file? How do I open a file in Dekiscript? How do I read its contents in Dekiscript?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Moshiko

[SteveB]

DekiScript cannot access files from disk. You would have to make the file accessible via http:// and then you can use web.text() or web.xml() to load the contents and display on a page.

[moshiko]

I tried:

{{ web.text("file:///c:/test.txt") }}

And got:

(unable to fetch text document from uri [status: 1 (NoEndpointFound)])

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
moshiko

[SteveB]

web.text tries to read the file and display it. You cannot have the server read a file that is local on your machine and display it.

[moshiko]

Hi Steve

Thanks for the quick reply.
Is there a way to overcome this so thatweb.text will "think" my file is not a local one?
The file is not really on a local machine. It is on a network, \\server\file

My idea is to have the wiki build a dynamic html page based on that file which can be modified.

I am looking for a way to acomplish this.
The idea is that each time someone will open the wiki value I contributed to the wiki, he will get different html page. Think of this page as a growing table of released versions.

I want to do it all by a script so that the wiki page would be modified automatically by a script.

Thanks for all the help,
Moshiko

[SteveB]

If you place the test.txt into a web-accessible folder, it will work fine (e.g. http://server/some_web_folder/test.txt). You could also attach the file to the page dynamically using the API and curl.

[moshiko]

Hi Steve

What does it mean API and curl?

thanks,
Moshiko

[SteveB]

If these don't mean anything to you, they are likely not be the right tool for you.

[moshiko]

Steve

What do you mean this is not the tool for me? Why not explain what is it and how to to do it? this is important to me...

Moshiko

[SteveB]

I'm trying to point you in the right direction. The best direction is the one that relies on tools you're already familiar with. I recommend you look at putting your file into a web-accessible folder. It's pretty straightforward and requires no programming.