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For me the web api was rails and client side angular used with restangular and filesaver. How to download files from authenticated web api end points. Before we understand what is web api, lets see what is an api application programing interface. Using web api as a proxy for downloading files davide guida.
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Net web api controller endpoint requiring authentication that returns a base64 string of the file contents. I would like to download a image from a url and serve it via a controller. As this is a web api, we can use this with any clientside application windows or web. In this post, we will stick to the images, but the logic is reusable for other file types as well. Here is a simple approach to invoke file download operation in the browser for bytes array available on the server. At first you think its going to be easy to download a file from web api, but as i discovered, it was not.
Net web api is a framework that is built upon the mvc model view controller principal to assist in rapidly building a restful api using the. Net core web api part and then to use those files in our angular client app. Net web api file download service with resume support. Apr 17, 2016 i used the following article as an example to handle the content download and file creation in the web api side. This simple html form will allow you to select a file using the traditional browser dialog and send it to the web api controller. A web api consists of one or more controller classes that derive from controllerbase.
Upload a file to azure blob storage using webapi paris. Use webapi to download file as attachment using attributerouting fileattachmentcontroller. The web api will insert and retrieve files from sql server database using entity framework in asp. Add view in fileupload action and add following code. At first you think its going to be easy to download a file from web api, but as i discovered. Java spring boot rest api to uploaddownload file on server.
Upload insert and download retrieve files from database. Net web api as backend service layer, we had to implement file downloading functionality using ajax. Return file in standard controller and web api controller the asp. I am currently doing a get to a web api method and am passing the file name as parameter.
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In this section, well add an html page that uses ajax to call the web api. The web api 2 controller method will fetch records from database using entity framework in asp. In this article, we saw very simple steps to upload large files in web apis. Net core webapi in this article, we will see how to download or return useful file types like.