Text recipe

text recipe simply returns plain files. This recipe is great for generating text files like csv or xml because there is no transformation required. Recipe can be configured to change Content Type, File Extension and Content Disposition.

• Content Type - any mime type like text/xml or text/csv can be set
• File Extension - output file extension like xml or csv
• Content Disposition - standard full http Content-Disposition header or just shorten inline or attachment string. It is useful to set for example attachment disposition for csv files to force browser to open csv in excel during preview.

Entities escaping

The templating engines usually escapes html entities like & into & or <into < and you need to use correct syntax to avoid this. The handlebars for example has syntax {{{foo}}} and jsrender {{:foo}} which doesn't do escaping.

Big outputs

You can reach the nodejs string size limit when rendering >=500MB outputs. This can be solved using the jsreport.templatingEngines.createStream and streming output parts through files while minimizing the memory footprint.

This is the mostly used by implementing your own each helper.

const jsreport = require('jsreport-proxy')
async function myEach(items, options) {
    const stream = await jsreport.templatingEngines.createStream()
    for (let item of items) {        
        await stream.write(options.fn(item))
    }
    return await stream.toResult()
}

{{#myEach myData}}
  {{colA}};{{colB}};{{colC}}
{{/myEach}}

See the playground demo