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Question

You need to set the responseType to arraybuffer if you would like to create a blob from your response data:

$http.post('/fetchBlobURL',{myParams}, {responseType: 'arraybuffer'})
   .success(function (data) {
       var file = new Blob([data], {type: 'application/pdf'});
       var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);
       window.open(fileURL);
});

more information: Sending_and_Receiving_Binary_Data

If you set { responseType: 'blob' }, no need to create Blob on your own. You can simply create url based with response content:

$http({
    url: "...",
    method: "POST",
    responseType: "blob"
}).then(function(response) {
    var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(response.data);
    window.open(fileURL);
});

I use AngularJS v1.3.4

HTML:

<button ng-click="downloadPdf()" class="btn btn-primary">download PDF</button>

JS controller:

'use strict';
angular.module('xxxxxxxxApp')
    .controller('MathController', function ($scope, MathServicePDF) {
        $scope.downloadPdf = function () {
            var fileName = "test.pdf";
            var a = document.createElement("a");
            document.body.appendChild(a);
            MathServicePDF.downloadPdf().then(function (result) {
                var file = new Blob([result.data], {type: 'application/pdf'});
                var fileURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);
                a.href = fileURL;
                a.download = fileName;
                a.click();
            });
        };
});

JS services:

angular.module('xxxxxxxxApp')
    .factory('MathServicePDF', function ($http) {
        return {
            downloadPdf: function () {
            return $http.get('api/downloadPDF', { responseType: 'arraybuffer' }).then(function (response) {
                return response;
            });
        }
    };
});

Java REST Web Services - Spring MVC:

@RequestMapping(value = "/downloadPDF", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/pdf")
    public ResponseEntity<byte[]> getPDF() {
        FileInputStream fileStream;
        try {
            fileStream = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\xxxxx\\xxxxxx\\test.pdf"));
            byte[] contents = IOUtils.toByteArray(fileStream);
            HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
            headers.setContentType(MediaType.parseMediaType("application/pdf"));
            String filename = "test.pdf";
            headers.setContentDispositionFormData(filename, filename);
            ResponseEntity<byte[]> response = new ResponseEntity<byte[]>(contents, headers, HttpStatus.OK);
            return response;
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
           System.err.println(e);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
        return null;
    }

// I used this code with the fpdf library.
// Este código lo usé con la libreria fpdf.

var datas = json1;
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "carpeta/archivo.php");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhr.responseType = "blob";
xhr.onload = function () {
    if (this.status === 200) {
        var blob = new Blob([xhr.response], {type: 'application/pdf'});
        const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
        window.open(url,"_blank");
        setTimeout(function () {
            // For Firefox it is necessary to delay revoking the ObjectURL
            window.URL.revokeObjectURL(datas)
                , 100
        })
    }
};
xhr.send("men="+datas);

You are not required to set the response type if your data is a byte array, make sure you convert it to Uint8Array before passing it to blob.

Example:

let byteArray = new Uint8Array(data)
let file = new Blob(
  [byteArray],
  {type: 'application/pdf'}
)

It works for me.

If your data is not byteArray, make sure to convert it to byteArray and follow above-mentioned steps to make it work.

//For example if your data is base-64 encoded string.
let byteChars = atob(data); //To decrypt data
let dataArray = = new Array(byteChars.length);
for(let i=0; i< byteChars.length; i++){
   dataArray[i] = byteChars.charCodeAt(i);
}
let byteArray = new Uint8Array(dataArray)
let file = new Blob(
  [byteArray],
  {type: 'application/pdf'}
)