How can I return a Zip file from my Java server-side using JAX-RS?

Question

I want to return a zipped file from my server-side java using JAX-RS to the client.

I tried the following code,

@GET
public Response get() throws Exc         


        

Answer 1

You are delegating in Jersey the knowledge of how to serialize the ZipOutputStream. So, with your code you need to implement a custom MessageBodyWriter for ZipOutputStream. Instead, the most reasonable option might be to return the byte array as the entity.

Your code looks like:

@GET
public Response get() throws Exception {
    final File file = new File(filePath);

    return Response
            .ok(FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(file))
            .type("application/zip")
            .header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"filename.zip\"")
            .build();
}

In this example I use FileUtils from Apache Commons IO to convert File to byte[], but you can use another implementation.