Download file

[Stephen ODonnell]

Hi,

I just have quick question. How do I download a file from a servlet?
At the moment I have a jsp page, which takes user details and calls a servlet which generates a file and saves it to disk. I now want to let the user download this file?

Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Stephen.

[gudla Dathathreya Reddy]

Hi Guy,
This code 100% definitely solve your problem. This is below .
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage;

import com.bsl.common.configuration.CommonConfiguration;
import com.bsl.sfa.Constants;


public class DownloadServlet extends HttpServlet {

private void performTask(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
try {
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
if (session.getAttribute(Constants.SESSION_USERID) == null) {
response.sendRedirect("/sfa/error.jsp");
} else {
String lsFileName = request.getParameter("filename");
String lsPathKey =
request.getParameter("pathkey").replace('\\', '/');

if (lsFileName != null && lsPathKey != null) {
File loDownloadFile =
new File(
CommonConfiguration.getProperty(
lsPathKey,
lsPathKey)
+ "/"
+ lsFileName);// path of the file
if (loDownloadFile.isFile()) {
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(loDownloadFile);
ServletOutputStream loOut = response.getOutputStream();
if (lsFileName.endsWith(".pdf")) {
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
} else if (lsFileName.endsWith(".doc")) {
response.setContentType("application/msword");
} else if (lsFileName.endsWith(".xls")) {
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
} else {
response.setContentType(
"application/download; charset=UTF-8");
}
response.setHeader(
"Content-Disposition",
"attachment;filename=" + lsFileName);
int bytesRead = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
while ((bytesRead = is.read(buffer, 0, 8192)) != -1) {
loOut.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
loOut.flush();
is.close();
loOut.close();
} else {
throw new FileNotFoundException("File not found");
}
} else {
throw new FileNotFoundException("File not found");
}
}
} catch (Throwable t) {
ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
if (t instanceof FileNotFoundException) {
ActionMessage error =
new ActionMessage("global.error.filenotfound");
errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, error);
request.setAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.ERROR", errors);
} else {
ActionMessage error = new ActionMessage("global.error.general");
errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, error);
request.setAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.ERROR", errors);
}
this.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(
"/error.jsp").forward(
request,
response);
}
}
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet#doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
*/
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException, ServletException {
performTask(req, res);
}

/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet#doPost(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
*/
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException, ServletException {
performTask(req, res);
}

}

Regards,
Dathathreya Reddy,
Cramer System Europe Limited,
[e-mail]

[Salvador Valencia]

Thanks for that post, it was exactly what I was looking for.

Could you tell what does 'com.bsl.common.configuration.CommonConfiguration' do?

SV.