I have an IEnumerable<string>
, which is "streamed" per yield
statements from a method. Now I want to convert this enumerable to a Stream
to use it as streamed result. Any ideas how I can do this?
What I finally want to do is to return the Stream
as FileStreamResult
from an ASP.NET controller action. This result should be streamed as download to the client.
What I do NOT want to do is to write the whole content of the IEnumerable
to the stream before I return the result. This would eliminate the whole sense of the streaming concept.
You have to create your ActionResult class to achieve lazy evaluation. You have create mix of ContentResult
an FileStreamResult
classes to achieve behaviour like FileStreamResult with ability to set result encoding. Good starting point is FileResult
abstract class:
public class EnumerableStreamResult : FileResult
{
public IEnumerable<string> Enumerable
{
get;
private set;
}
public Encoding ContentEncoding
{
get;
set;
}
public EnumerableStreamResult(IEnumerable<string> enumerable, string contentType)
: base(contentType)
{
if (enumerable == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("enumerable");
}
this.Enumerable = enumerable;
}
protected override void WriteFile(HttpResponseBase response)
{
Stream outputStream = response.OutputStream;
if (this.ContentEncoding != null)
{
response.ContentEncoding = this.ContentEncoding;
}
if (this.Enumerable != null)
{
foreach (var item in Enumerable)
{
//do your stuff here
response.Write(item);
}
}
}
}
I think you can use it in this first convert your string to byte array and use memory stram afterwards
string sourceFile = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(Path.Combine("/", "yourAddress"));
byte[] byteArray = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(sourceFile);
MemoryStream mem;
using (mem = new MemoryStream())
{
mem.Write(byteArray, 0, (int)byteArray.Length);
return mem;
}