Ubuntu
webbrowser-app package

Can't open a PDF from a webapp

Bug #1629466 reported by Michael Terry on 2016-09-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1560086: cannot download files with no destination app from webapps. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

And potentially any Content Hub file?

When trying to open pdfs in the fastmail or reddit webapps, I get the following and the pdf never opens:

file:///usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Content/ContentPeerPicker13.qml:194: TypeError: Cannot read property 'peers' of null
file:///usr/share/webbrowser-app/webcontainer/WebappWebview.qml:219: ReferenceError: startDownload is not defined

I'm assuming it's the second message that is fatal, so I've opened against webbrowser-app.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2016-10-03:

Yeah, digging a little more, neither the startDownload signal or function exists. Looks like code copied and pasted from Browser.qml. But webapps don't need the same download support (they just care about exporting to a ContentHub peer rather than internally downloading).

I tried to hack a fix together, but I couldn't make it work. I don't know ContentHub very well.

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Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre) wrote on 2016-10-07:

This is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/webapps-core/+bug/1560086 for which there is a branch in progress, sorry for the delay on this, I will MR it ASAP,