Hi,

I think this will help you out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5826649/returning-a-file-to-view-download-in-asp-net-mvc

-Joep

Hi,

At base, since you are using UmbracoApiController., you are not using System.Net.Mvc namespace at first place.

ApiController is deriven over ControllerBase not the Controller class. Controller is also deriven over ControllerBase and contains view support (and all fancy results classes).

When you have ApiController, I suggest you to use HttpResponseMessage and deliver your file as data.

Below I added a stackoverflow link you might want to check out.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26038856/how-to-return-a-file-filecontentresult-in-asp-net-webapi

-Mehmet

Thanks for replying, I tried using the HttpResponseMessage in a class and call it through the Controller: UmbracoApiController, it steps through ok but I am never presented with the document.

HttpResponseMessage

  public HttpResponseMessage Build()
    {

        var path = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Downloads/" + FileName);

        var dataBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
        var dataStream = new MemoryStream(dataBytes);
        var result = new HttpResponseMessage(System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK);
        result.Content = new StreamContent(dataStream);
        result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new System.Net.Http.Headers.ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
        {
            FileName = Path.GetFileName(path)
        };
        result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream");

        return result;

Hi Duncan,

Your code looked quite solid to me, so I copied it over to test on my side. I got the file right away.

Do you think it is related to how you have called it?

No way!

I am using angular to send a post request to the controller: UmbracoApiController then calls the class file.

        var endPoint = "/Umbraco/Api/WordDocX/Post";
    $http.post(endPoint, "=" + jsonData, config)....etc

What are you using to get the file?

I will eventually build on this but wanted to prove that I could serve the document first.

Hi again,

Well, I picked the simplest plain way, direct call over browser.

Edit: I would love to hear about how this is handled with angular, not really my area.

so for me;

I use angular to call the controller which in turn returns the HttpResponseMessage class.

Why it is not serving the document I have no idea.

It is promising that you are getting the file though! Thanks for trying that out for me!

So finally got this to work. It was indeed the way I was calling it being the issue, this is what I now have and is serving the document;

var Config = {
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        },
        responseType: 'arraybuffer'
    }

    $http.post(EndPoint, "=" + jsonData, Config)
        .then(function (response) {

            var File = new Blob([response.data], { type: 'application/vnd.ms-word' });
            var FileURL = URL.createObjectURL(File);
            var Filename = 'MyDocument.docx';

            if (detectIE()) {
                return window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(File, Filename);
            }

            var a = document.createElement('a');
            a.href = FileURL;
            a.Target = '_blank';
            a.download = Filename;
            document.body.appendChild(a);
            a.click();

        }, function (error) {
            alert("Cannot write out Word Document, sorry!");
            console.log(error);
        });

Hope it helps someone!

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