Sunday, February 17, 2013
I have already posted how you can upload a file to server with servlet. Today I will post how to download a file from server with servlet. You know how to send HTML data to client. But there may be situation where client may want to download a file hosted by server. So, here I will write the servlet code that will send the file to the client. The two important things that you will have to remember are :
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- MIME type : You will have to set the content type. This is necessary as Container has no idea about type of file. If the type is set then the browser will automatically open the file in client's default application for that particular type.This is done using response.setContentType() method which takes in MIME type as parameter.
- I/O stream : You will have to use OutputStream and not PrintWriter. This is because we will be sending binary data and not HTML. This is done using response.getOutputStream() method which returns a reference to the object of java.io.OutputStream.
Screenshot of output
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Output as seen in Firefox |
Java Source Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import javax.servlet.ServletContext; import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; @WebServlet("/a/b/download") public class Downloader extends HttpServlet{ @Override public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res){ res.setContentType("application/pdf"); //setting MIME type ServletContext ctx = getServletContext(); try{ //getting stream to file InputStream is = ctx.getResourceAsStream("/ALG_3rd.pdf"); int read = 0; byte[] bytes = new byte[1024]; //setting buffer OutputStream os = res.getOutputStream(); //getting stream while ((read = is.read(bytes)) != -1) //reading file os.write(bytes, 0, read); //writing to stream os.flush(); //closing streams os.close(); }catch(Exception e){} } }
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