Question

I am making the view to list the data in my view like this

class DownloadView(ListView):
    template_name = 'mytemplate.html'

Now in my that view , i want that when the page loads then i generate a pdf file in that view (which i can do) and then it should prompt the user with save file option. how can i do that

Answer 1

Check out the django docs, it shows populating the response['Content-Disposition'] with 'attachment; filename="somefilename.pdf"', but I think the following may work, if you’ve read the pdf file data into pdf_data.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def serve_pdf_view(request):
    pdf_data = magically_create_pdf()
    return HttpResponse(pdf_data, content_type='application/pdf')