Spring MVC : large files for download, OutOfMemoryException

Question

How to provide large files for download through spring controller ? I followed few discussions on similar topic :

Downloading a file from spring controllers

Answer 1

It is because you are reading the entire file into memory, use a buffered read and write instead.

@RequestMapping(value = "/file/{dummyparam}.pdf", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces=MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM_VALUE)
public void getFile(@PathVariable("dummyparam") String dummyparam, HttpServletResponse response) {


    InputStream is = new FileInputStream(resultFile);

    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"dummyname " + dummyparam + ".pdf\"");


    int read=0;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[BYTES_DOWNLOAD];
    OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();

    while((read = is.read(bytes))!= -1){
        os.write(bytes, 0, read);
    }
    os.flush();
    os.close(); 
}

Answer 2

For Spring , Need use InputStreamResource class in ResponseEntity .

Demo Code :

        MediaType mediaType = MediaTypeUtils.getMediaTypeForFileName(this.servletContext, fileName);
        System.out.println("fileName: " + fileName);
        System.out.println("mediaType: " + mediaType);

        File file = new File(DIRECTORY + "/" + fileName);
        InputStreamResource resource = new InputStreamResource(new FileInputStream(file));

        return ResponseEntity.ok()
                // Content-Disposition
                .header(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION, "attachment;filename=" + file.getName())
                // Content-Type
                .contentType(mediaType)
                // Contet-Length
                .contentLength(file.length()) //
                .body(resource);
    }

Ref Link : https://o7planning.org/en/11765/spring-boot-file-download-example