How to display PDF (Blob) on iOS sent from my angularjs app

Question

My Angular 1.5 application connect to a Java/Tomcat/Spring backend server via REST.

One REST service generates PDF and send it to the client. It works fine on DEskto

Answer 1

Just add the below code as your $http call.I've handled for other browsers as well.

    $http.get("/displayPdf", {responseType: 'arraybuffer', params: {id: 1}}).success(function(data) {
    var blob = new Blob([data], {type 'application/pdf'});
    var anchor = document.createElement("a");
    if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") != -1||navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") != -1){
                    $window.open(URL.createObjectURL(file,{oneTimeOnly:true}));
    }else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("iPad") != -1){
                    var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);
                    //var anchor = document.createElement("a");
                    anchor.download="myPDF.pdf";
                    anchor.href = fileURL;
                    anchor.click();
    }else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari") != -1){
                        var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);
                        anchor.href = url;
                        anchor.download = "myPDF.pdf";
                        document.body.appendChild(anchor);
                        anchor.click();
                        setTimeout(function(){
                            document.body.removeChild(anchor);
                            window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);  
                        }, 1000);
      }
   });