I use AngularJS v1.3.4
HTML:
<button ng-click="downloadPdf()" class="btn btn-primary">download PDF</button>
JS controller:
'use strict';
angular.module('xxxxxxxxApp')
.controller('MathController', function ($scope, MathServicePDF) {
$scope.downloadPdf = function () {
var fileName = "test.pdf";
var a = document.createElement("a");
document.body.appendChild(a);
MathServicePDF.downloadPdf().then(function (result) {
var file = new Blob([result.data], {type: 'application/pdf'});
var fileURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);
a.href = fileURL;
a.download = fileName;
a.click();
});
};
});
JS services:
angular.module('xxxxxxxxApp')
.factory('MathServicePDF', function ($http) {
return {
downloadPdf: function () {
return $http.get('api/downloadPDF', { responseType: 'arraybuffer' }).then(function (response) {
return response;
});
}
};
});
Java REST Web Services - Spring MVC:
@RequestMapping(value = "/downloadPDF", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/pdf")
public ResponseEntity<byte[]> getPDF() {
FileInputStream fileStream;
try {
fileStream = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\xxxxx\\xxxxxx\\test.pdf"));
byte[] contents = IOUtils.toByteArray(fileStream);
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.parseMediaType("application/pdf"));
String filename = "test.pdf";
headers.setContentDispositionFormData(filename, filename);
ResponseEntity<byte[]> response = new ResponseEntity<byte[]>(contents, headers, HttpStatus.OK);
return response;
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println(e);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println(e);
}
return null;
}