How to set 'Content-Disposition' and 'Filename' when using FileSystemResource to force a file download file?

Question

What is the most appropriate, and standard, way to set the Content-Disposition=attachment and filename=xyz.zip using Spring 3 FileSystemResource?

The action looks like :

@ResponseBody @RequestMapping(value = "/action/{abcd}/{efgh}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/zip") @PreAuthorize("@authorizationService.authorizeMethod()") public FileSystemResource doAction(@PathVariable String abcd, @PathVariable String efgh) {      File zipFile = service.getFile(abcd, efgh);      return new FileSystemResource(zipFile); } 

Although the file is a zip file so the browser always downloads the file, but I would like to explicitly mention the file as attachment, and also provide a filename that has nothing to do with the files actual name.

There might be workarounds for this problem, but I would like to know the proper Spring and FileSystemResource way to achieve this goal.

P.S. The file that is being used here is a temporary file, marked for deletion when the JVM exists.

Answer 1

In addition to the accepted answer, Spring has the class ContentDisposition specific for this purpose. I believe it deals with the file name sanitization.

      ContentDisposition contentDisposition = ContentDisposition.builder("inline")           .filename("Filename")           .build();        HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();       headers.setContentDisposition(contentDisposition);