How to get a binary stream by GridFS ObjectId with Spring Data MongoDB

Question

I can\'t figure out how to stream a binary file from GridFS with spring-data-mongodb and its GridFSTemplate when I already have the right ObjectId.

Answer 1

I stumbled upon this, too. And I am actually pretty shocked that the GridFsTemplate has been designed like this... Anyway, my ugly "solution" to this so far:

public GridFsResource download(String fileId) {
    GridFSFile file = gridFsTemplate.findOne(Query.query(Criteria.where("_id").is(fileId)));

    return new GridFsResource(file, getGridFs().openDownloadStream(file.getObjectId()));
}

private GridFSBucket getGridFs() {

    MongoDatabase db = mongoDbFactory.getDb();
    return GridFSBuckets.create(db);
}

Note: You have to inject the MongoDbFactory for this to work...