How to set response header in JAX-RS so that user sees download popup for Excel?

Question

I wrote code that generate Excel file using REST JAX-RS and I confirmed that the generated Excel file is in GlassFish server directory.

But my goal is when user clic

Answer 1

I figured to set HTTP response header and stream to display download-popup in browser via standard servlet. note: I'm using Excella, excel output API.

package local.test.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import local.test.jaxrs.ExcellaTestResource;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
import org.bbreak.excella.core.BookData;
import org.bbreak.excella.core.exception.ExportException;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.exporter.ExcelExporter;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.exporter.ReportBookExporter;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.model.ConvertConfiguration;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.model.ReportBook;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.model.ReportSheet;
import org.bbreak.excella.reports.processor.ReportProcessor;

@WebServlet(name="ExcelServlet", urlPatterns={"/ExcelServlet"})
public class ExcelServlet extends HttpServlet {

    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {


        try {

            URL templateFileUrl = ExcellaTestResource.class.getResource("myTemplate.xls");
            //   /C:/Users/m-hugohugo/Documents/NetBeansProjects/KogaAlpha/build/web/WEB-INF/classes/local/test/jaxrs/myTemplate.xls
            System.out.println(templateFileUrl.getPath());
            String templateFilePath = URLDecoder.decode(templateFileUrl.getPath(), "UTF-8");
            String outputFileDir = "MasatoExcelHorizontalOutput";

            ReportProcessor reportProcessor = new ReportProcessor();
            ReportBook outputBook = new ReportBook(templateFilePath, outputFileDir, ExcelExporter.FORMAT_TYPE);

            ReportSheet outputSheet = new ReportSheet("MySheet");
            outputBook.addReportSheet(outputSheet);

            reportProcessor.addReportBookExporter(new OutputStreamExporter(response));
            System.out.println("wtf???");
            reportProcessor.process(outputBook);


            System.out.println("done!!");
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }

    } //end doGet()

    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

    }

}//end class



class OutputStreamExporter extends ReportBookExporter {

    private HttpServletResponse response;

    public OutputStreamExporter(HttpServletResponse response) {
        this.response = response;
    }

    @Override
    public String getExtention() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public String getFormatType() {
        return ExcelExporter.FORMAT_TYPE;
    }

    @Override
    public void output(Workbook book, BookData bookdata, ConvertConfiguration configuration) throws ExportException {

        System.out.println(book.getFirstVisibleTab());
        System.out.println(book.getSheetName(0));

        //TODO write to stream
        try {
            response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
            response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=masatoExample.xls");
            book.write(response.getOutputStream());
            response.getOutputStream().close();
            System.out.println("booya!!");
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}//end class