Spring - download file and redirect

Question

I have a download link on my page which works just fine but it doesn\'t refresh/redirects my page. Here\'s my code.

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Answer 1

From LottaLava answer, I got the idea to solve a similar problem.

In JavaScript, after form submission, I wait for one and a half-second and then reload the page. The waiting time is to time for the backend to download the file (here exportToXML) and return the response and then in JavaScript refresh the page.

form.submit();
sleep(1500).then(function() {
     document.location.reload();
});

Here form.submit() calls the controllers action, in your case exportToXML.

The sleep function is as follows:

function sleep(milliseconds) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve) {
        setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds);
    });
}

The sleep function refers to here