Prompt file download

Question

I have a link on my page on click of which I am trying to generate a PDF document and then show the \"Open - Save\" prompt on the browser.

My HTML (reactjs component

Answer 1

Your issue is that the GetMyDocument function will receive the PDF file as a server response, and currently you are doing nothing with that response. You need to handle the response in the then callback. Saving files from javascript is not entirely simple, so I would recommend using an external library such as filesaver.js to help you.

It will end up looking something like...

_getMyDocument(e) {
    GetMyDocument(this.props.mydata)
    .then((response)=> {
        const returnedFile = new Blob([response], { type: 'application/pdf'});
        saveAs(returnedFile);
    }).catch(error=> {

    });