I'm trying to do the following:
- The user fill a form and send it in .JSON to the server
- With the form, the server generate some .CSV files and put them all together in a .ZIP file.
- The server send the .ZIP file and the user download it.
After some research I have wrote this code:
My Controller:
[HttpPost]
[Route("routeToMyAPI")]
public HttpResponseMessage Process(Form form)
{
var result = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
Content = new StreamContent(<streamToMyGeneratedZipFile>)
};
result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream");
result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
{
FileName = "fileName.zip"
};
return result;
}
My Service:
angular.module('app')
.factory('MyService', function ($http) {
return {
Process: function (form) {
var req = $http.post('rest/example/process', form);
return req;
}
};
});
My Controller:
this.submit = function () {
var Form = {};
var formPost = MyService.Process(Form);
formPost.then(function (data) {
var a = document.createElement('a');
var blob = new Blob([data], { 'type': "application/octet-stream" });
a.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
a.download = "fileName.zip";
a.click();
}, function (error) {
alert('An error occured !');
});
};
I have parts 1 & 2 working, but I don't have find the way to call my ASP API to download the .ZIP file.
When I call the submit method of my Controller, I have a fileName.zip who is downloaded on my PC but when I try to open it Windows says to me that it's not a valid archive.
What did I do wrong ? I'm a rookie in angularjs and ASP so any help will be welcomed.
Thanks in advance.