What I needed:
We have value in the response.d that is comma deliminated value. Now I want to export the data of response.d to .csv file.
I have written this function to perform this. I have received the data in response.d but not exporting to the .csv file, so give the solution for this problem to export data in .csv file.
function BindSubDivCSV(){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "../../WebCodeService.asmx / ShowTrackSectorDepartureList",
data: "{}",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function (response) {
alert(response.d);//export to csv function needed here
},
error: function (data) {}
});
return false;
}
In case you have no control over how the server-side works, here is a client-side solution that I have offered in another SO question, pending for that OP's acceptance: Export to CSV using jQuery and html
There are certain restrictions or limitations you will have to consider, as I have mentioned in my answer over there, which has more details.
This is the same demo I have offered:
http://jsfiddle.net/terryyounghk/KPEGU/
And to give you a rough idea of what the script looks like.
What you need to change is how you iterate your data (in the other question's case it was table cells) to construct a valid CSV string. This should be trivial.
$(document).ready(function () {
function exportTableToCSV($table, filename) {
var $rows = $table.find('tr:has(td)'),
// Temporary delimiter characters unlikely to be typed by keyboard
// This is to avoid accidentally splitting the actual contents
tmpColDelim = String.fromCharCode(11), // vertical tab character
tmpRowDelim = String.fromCharCode(0), // null character
// actual delimiter characters for CSV format
colDelim = '","',
rowDelim = '"\r\n"',
// Grab text from table into CSV formatted string
csv = '"' + $rows.map(function (i, row) {
var $row = $(row),
$cols = $row.find('td');
return $cols.map(function (j, col) {
var $col = $(col),
text = $col.text();
return text.replace('"', '""'); // escape double quotes
}).get().join(tmpColDelim);
}).get().join(tmpRowDelim)
.split(tmpRowDelim).join(rowDelim)
.split(tmpColDelim).join(colDelim) + '"',
// Data URI
csvData = 'data:application/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(csv);
$(this)
.attr({
'download': filename,
'href': csvData,
'target': '_blank'
});
}
// This must be a hyperlink
$(".export").on('click', function (event) {
// CSV
exportTableToCSV.apply(this, [$('#dvData>table'), 'export.csv']);
// IF CSV, don't do event.preventDefault() or return false
// We actually need this to be a typical hyperlink
});
});
Using the code above (from Terry Young) I found that in Opera it would refuse to give the file a name (simply calling it "download") and would not always work reliably.
To get it to work I had to create a binary blob:
var filename = 'file.csv';
var outputCSV = 'entry1,entry2,entry3';
var blobby = new Blob([outputCSV], {type: 'text/plain'});
$(exportLink).attr({
'download' : filename,
'href': window.URL.createObjectURL(blobby),
'target': '_blank'
});
exportLink.click();
Also note that creating the "exportLink" variable on the fly would not work with Firefox so I had to have this in my HTML file:
<div>
<a id="exportLink"></a>
</div>
Using the above I have successfully tested this using Windows 7 64bit and Opera (v22), Firefox (v29.0.1), and Chrome (v35.0.1916.153 m).
To enable similar functionality (albeit in a far less elegant manner) on Internet Explorer I had to use Downloadify.