How to send zip file in httpresponse attachment in python

Question

I am making a jquery ajax POST request and passing the data to backend python code in Django framework. I need to return the zip file as httpresponse which should be automatically downloaded in browser.

             object_body = request.body.decode('utf-8')
             loaded_json = json.loads(object_body)

             json_obj = ast.literal_eval(str(loaded_json))

             zip_file_path = importexport.download(json_obj,user)
             zip_filename = os.path.basename(zip_file_path)

             with open(zip_file_path, 'rb') as zip:
               response = HttpResponse(zip.read(), content_type = 'application/x-zip')
               response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=' + zip_filename

             return response

Great question, what does your code result into so far? Do you get an error or do you not get an attachment? — Chuk Ultima, Jul 18 '18 at 06:25
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12881294/django-create-a-zip-of-multiple-files-and-make-it-downloadable check it, — Mr Singh, Jul 18 '18 at 06:33
The file is not getting downloaded as attachement. In Response, its displaying the zip file contents — d3514514, Jul 18 '18 at 08:43
This is the ajax request being passed ....return $.ajax({ url: "/testmgr/importexport/", data: JSON.stringify(data), method: 'POST', dataType: 'application/x-zip', accepts: 'application/x-zip', success: function(response) { }, }); — d3514514, Jul 18 '18 at 08:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 06:31

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One solution:

put the zip file into MEDIA_ROOT, and redirect to the url of it.

answered Jul 18 '18 at 06:31

Waket Zheng

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 06:34

If you have download URL (put the file into MEDIA_ROOT), you can just write a tag with download attribute and then click on Download as mentioned in following code snippet, it automatically downloads the file without redirection.

<a href="https://github.com/vaibhavmule/vaibhavmule.github.io/archive/master.zip" download>Download</a>

How to send zip file in httpresponse attachment in python

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