Hans, Thank you so much for the kind response. Apologies that I was not very clear in my initial query. I have - 1. MyStatement.tex, with all the necessary fonts, static text, images, header, footer etc 2. MyStatement.tex reads from a JSON file for certain sections of the document for the dynamic content 3. context MyStatement.tex produces MyStatement.pdf How do I do the above steps 1 to 3 in a continuous fashion such that - - Output is MyStatement_1.pdf (reads from data_1.json), MyStatement_2.pdf (reads from data_2.json) and so on - The tex processing is fast as fonts etc are loaded once (as the Tex template is same for all the MyStatement_n.pdf)
From the sample code that you gave, I get a hint that this can be possibly done using ConTeXt Lua Document approach. Is this correct?
Thank you once again,
Best,
Ramkumar
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:02 PM Hans Hagen
On 11/3/2020 1:55 AM, Ramkumar KB wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to run mtxrun in a batch process and read the available documentation here - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_ConTeXt_without_a_shell
My usecase is being able to create PDF docs based on the input data that comes in a JSON format (in a continuous batch process). In ConTeXt, thanks to the Lua engine, I am able to inject a JSON read from a file - and use the JSON in the tex file (here variable `tab` holds the JSON).
How do I make this as a continuous webservice - in comes JSON and out comes the PDF ?
\startluacode require("test-json") \stopluacode
The name of the document is \ctxlua{tex.print(tab['documentName'])}
Any tips or pointers would be much appreciated. foo.cld :
require("util-jsn")
-- local str = io.loaddata("somefile.json")
local str = [[ { "title": "Some JSON", "text" : "Just an example.", "data" : [ { "a" : "first 1", "b" : "last 1" }, { "b" : "last 2", "a" : "first 2" } ] } ]]
local tmp = utilities.json.tolua(str)
context.starttext()
context.starttitle { title = tmp.title }
context(tmp.text) context.par()
context.starttabulate { "|c|c|" } for i=1,#tmp.data do local d = tmp.data[i] context.NC() context(d.a) context.NC() context(d.b) context.NC() context.NR() end context.stoptabulate()
context.stoptitle()
context.stoptext()
and then
context foo.cld
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