Return report from MPS (Matlab production server)

I am using MPS for computation and reactJS as front end. After computation, I generate report using mlreportgen in docx. In local installation it is saved in a director.

When deploying on MPS, how can I return docx report back to reactJS front end? I am ok with html or pdf report too.

Thanks,

Answer 1

[Dheeraj]

Hi,

I understand that you want to know how to retrieve docx report back to reactJS front end from your MPS.

When deploying a MATLAB Production Server (MPS) application with a ReactJS front end, you typically communicate between the front end and the server through HTTP requests. In order to do this, you could expose an API that communicates with the front end.

1. Generate the report through the MPS Application and save the report in an accessible location.
2. In your MPS application, expose an API endpoint that allows the ReactJS front end to request the generated report. You can use MATLAB functions like “webwrite” or “urlread” to make HTTP requests.
3. In your ReactJS application, make an HTTP request to the MPS API endpoint that generates and sends the report. You can use libraries like “axios” for making HTTP requests.

You could use the below MATLAB documentation to know more about “webwrite” and “urlread”.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/webwrite.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/urlread.html

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

[Nicole Bonfatti]

There are a couple ways to do this:

• Enable static file hosting in your Production Server config and write the docx to the static_files folder in your mps instance folder, then GET it from <servername>:<port>/~files/<filename>.docx

Alternately,

• Return the docx as a string in the server response by reading the generated file and base64-encoding it with matlab.net.base64encode(). Then on the client side, base64-decode it to write to a file.

The first option will require you to periodically clear out the files from the static_files folder, but the second option means you can delete it from the server as soon as its base64 encoded.