Jersey client to download and save file

Question

I Am new to jersey/JAX-RS implementation. Please find below my jersey client code to download file:

 Client client = Client.create();
 WebResource wr = client.resource("http://localhost:7070/upload-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/rest/files/download");
 Builder wb=wr.accept("application/json,application/pdf,text/plain,image/jpeg,application/xml,application/vnd.ms-excel");
 ClientResponse clientResponse= wr.get(ClientResponse.class);
 System.out.println(clientResponse.getStatus());
 File res= clientResponse.getEntity(File.class);
 File downloadfile = new File("C://Data/test/downloaded/testnew.pdf");  
 res.renameTo(downloadfile);
 FileWriter fr = new FileWriter(res);
 fr.flush();

My Server side code is :

@Path("/download")
    @GET
    @Produces({"application/pdf","text/plain","image/jpeg","application/xml","application/vnd.ms-excel"})
    public Response getFile()
    {

        File download = new File("C://Data/Test/downloaded/empty.pdf");
        ResponseBuilder response = Response.ok((Object)download);
        response.header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=empty.pdf");
        return response.build();
    }

In my client code i am getting response as 200 OK,but i am unable to save my file on hard disk In the below line i am mentioning the path and location where the files need to be saved. Not sure whats going wrong here,any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advance!!

File downloadfile = new File("C://Data/test/downloaded/testnew.pdf");

Answer 1

For folks still looking for a solution, here is the complete code on how to save jaxrs response to a File.

public void downloadClient(){
    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    WebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:7070/upload-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/rest/files/download");

    Response resp = target
      .request("application/pdf,image/jpeg,application/xml,application/vnd.ms-excel")
      .get();

    if(resp.getStatus() == Response.Status.OK.getStatusCode())
    {
        InputStream is = resp.readEntity(InputStream.class);
        fetchFeed(is); 
        //fetchFeedAnotherWay(is) //use for Java 7
        IOUtils.closeQuietly(is);
        System.out.println("the file details after call:"+downloadfile.getAbsolutePath()+", size is "+downloadfile.length());
    } 
    else{
        throw new WebApplicationException("Http Call failed. response code is"+resp.getStatus()+". Error reported is"+resp.getStatusInfo());
    }
}
/**
* Store contents of file from response to local disk using java 7 
* java.nio.file.Files
*/
private void fetchFeed(InputStream is){
    File downloadfile = new File("C://Data/test/downloaded/testnew.pdf");  
    byte[] byteArray = IOUtils.toByteArray(is);
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(downloadfile);
    fos.write(byteArray);
    fos.flush();
    fos.close();
}

/**
* Alternate way to Store contents of file from response to local disk using
* java 7, java.nio.file.Files
*/
private void fetchFeedAnotherWay(InputStream is){
    File downloadfile = new File("C://Data/test/downloaded/testnew.pdf");  
    Files.copy(is, downloadfile.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
}

Answer 2

I don't know if Jersey let's you simply respond with a file like you have here:

File download = new File("C://Data/Test/downloaded/empty.pdf");
ResponseBuilder response = Response.ok((Object)download);

You can certainly use a StreamingOutput response to send the file from the server, like this:

StreamingOutput stream = new StreamingOutput() {
    @Override
    public void write(OutputStream os) throws IOException,
    WebApplicationException {
        Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(os));

        //@TODO read the file here and write to the writer

        writer.flush();
    }
};

return Response.ok(stream).build();

and your client would expect to read a stream and put it in a file:

InputStream in = response.getEntityInputStream();
if (in != null) {
    File f = new File("C://Data/test/downloaded/testnew.pdf");

    //@TODO copy the in stream to the file f

    System.out.println("Result size:" + f.length() + " written to " + f.getPath());
}