Feature Request: URLs to directly link to "view-pdf" a specific file

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Feature Request: URLs to directly link to "view-pdf" a specific file #1004

Open ASAujla opened 5 months ago

ASAujla commented 5 months ago

I want to create a link that will open ":/view-pdf", but I want it to open a specific file on my network, rather than the default "Welcome to Stirling PDF Reader using PDF.js" file.

Apologies if this is already possible, I couldn't find a way to do it.

sbplat commented 5 months ago

Like embedding the path of the file to the URL so it loads that file?

ASAujla commented 5 months ago

Yep, don't know how it would work, but something like this: _http://:/view-pdf?file=_

sbplat commented 5 months ago

The idea would be fine if it was all client sided. Since this is a server sided feature, clients can directly access files from the server which is probably a security concern. We could, however, set up a watch folder like the one from pipelines (so file access is limited).

ASAujla commented 4 months ago

Hi, sorry for the delay... I'm not familiar with Pipelines as I'm quite new to Stirling PDF. Sounds interesting, though!

oytuntez commented 2 months ago

@sbplat I think a more comprehensive and feature-like approach here would be:

SOMEHOW give a file to be loaded externally. This is part of a true UI integration with external systems. One can click "Edit PDF" next to a document row in a given system and somehow Stirling would be started with that file in mind only (to split, edit, whatever...)
Stirling's operation result (of merge, split, edit whatever) would then be sent to the external system (rather/in alternative to "downloading") and let the external system do whatever it needs to do with this new Stirling-output PDF/ZIP file.

This would make Stirling not a PDF editor, but an embeddable PDF editor.

oytuntez commented 2 months ago

After some codebase exploration, just wanted to say this can also be done via the front UI/JS. Download the given URL (via query parameters, imagine a temporary file url given by external system) and use it in file inputs for various operations. When they are done, POST the file to a given external endpoint (possibly with all query parameters in the original request).