I want to return a zipped file from my server-side java using JAX-RS to the client.
I tried the following code,
@GET
public Response get() throws Exception {
final String filePath = "C:/MyFolder/My_File.zip";
final File file = new File(filePath);
final ZipOutputStream zop = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file);
ResponseBuilder response = Response.ok(zop);
response.header("Content-Type", "application/zip");
response.header("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=" + file.getName());
return response.build();
}
But i'm getting exception as below,
SEVERE: A message body writer for Java class java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream, and Java type class java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream, and MIME media type application/zip was not found
SEVERE: The registered message body writers compatible with the MIME media type are:
*/* ->
com.sun.jersey.core.impl.provider.entity.FormProvider
What is wrong and how can I fix this?
You are delegating in Jersey the knowledge of how to serialize the ZipOutputStream. So, with your code you need to implement a custom MessageBodyWriter for ZipOutputStream. Instead, the most reasonable option might be to return the byte array as the entity.
Your code looks like:
@GET
public Response get() throws Exception {
final File file = new File(filePath);
return Response
.ok(FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(file))
.type("application/zip")
.header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"filename.zip\"")
.build();
}
In this example I use FileUtils from Apache Commons IO to convert File to byte[], but you can use another implementation.
In Jersey 2.16 file download is very easy
Below is the example for the ZIP file
@GET
@Path("zipFile")
@Produces("application/zip")
public Response getFile() {
File f = new File(ZIP_FILE_PATH);
if (!f.exists()) {
throw new WebApplicationException(404);
}
return Response.ok(f)
.header("Content-Disposition",
"attachment; filename=server.zip").build();
}
You can write the attachment data to StreamingOutput class, which Jersey will read from.
@Path("/report")
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public Response generateReport() {
String data = "file contents"; // data can be obtained from an input stream too.
StreamingOutput streamingOutput = outputStream -> {
ZipOutputStream zipOut = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(outputStream));
ZipEntry zipEntry = new ZipEntry(reportData.getFileName());
zipOut.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
zipOut.write(data); // you can set the data from another input stream
zipOut.closeEntry();
zipOut.close();
outputStream.flush();
outputStream.close();
};
return Response.ok(streamingOutput)
.type(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
.header("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=\"file.zip\"")
.build();
}
I'm not sure I it's possible in Jersey to just return a stream as result of annotated method. I suppose that rather stream should be opened and content of the file written to the stream. Have a look at this blog post. I guess You should implement something similar.