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Generate PDF button on a local json file does nothing

See original GitHub issue

When I click the Generate PDF button:

Screenshot from 2020-04-01 16-27-42

nothing happens. My issue is not the same as described in https://github.com/mrin9/RapiPdf/issues/5, in that issue the user describes a tab opening for a second and then closing, in my case nothing happens. Also the demo website https://mrin9.github.io/RapiPdf/ works great with the Swagger pet store example link https://mrin9.github.io/RapiPdf/specs/petstore.json.

Here is what I have done so far:

Clone RapiPdf to my home directory:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/mrin9/RapiPdf.git

Based on the bottom of the readme I’m doing to build steps:

cd ~/RapiPdf
yarn install
yarn build
yarn serve

In the root directory of RapiPdf there is already a file named index.html, so I made a file index2.html:

cd ~/RapiPdf
touch index2.html

Then I copy/pasted in this text from the RapiPdf website:

<!doctype html>
  <html>
  <head>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/rapipdf/dist/rapipdf-min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <rapi-pdf
      style = "width:700px; height:40px; font-size:18px;" 
      spec-url = "https://mrin9.github.io/RapiPdf/examples/specs/petstore.json"
      button-bg = "#b44646" 
    > </rapi-pdf>
  </body> 
  </html>

Then I copied a file named MyApi.json into the ~/RapiPdf directory. This file contains the Swagger 2.0 pet store example so I’m 100% sure it’s valid.

Next I edited the spec-url = "https://mrin9.github.io/RapiPdf/examples/specs/petstore.json" line in index2.html to be: spec-url = "../MyApi.json"

Please note that MyApi.json and index2.html are both located in the ~/RapiPdf/ directory. Next I double-clicked index2.html to open it in Chrome, see the screenshot at the beginning of this post. If I press the Generate PDF button nothing happens. No error message, no pop-up blocker warning, no momentary tab opening and then closing.

I’ve tried it with and without the yarn serve command above running. In the text box I’ve tried:

../MyApi.json
/home/cdahms/RapiPdf/MyApi.json
file://home/cdahms/RapiPdf/MyApi.json
file:///home/cdahms/RapiPdf/MyApi.json

In Chrome I went to: Chrome -> dot dot dot button -> Settings -> Privacy and security -> Pop-ups and redirects and added file:///home/cdahms/RapiPdf/index2.html

I also tried opening index2.html in FireFox, same result.

Suggestions ??

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Created 3 years ago
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mrin9commented, Apr 5, 2020

I can see there are about 12 errors in the screenshot, but not sure what are they. However I think its because we are trying to load a local file instead of loading from a http server. (There are some know issues when we try to load the spec file from a local system instead of an http server)

can you try to expose the folder ~/temp that you created through a web-server For a quick test I normally use http-server

in the command line, from the ~/temp folder run the below command