Question

I am new to spring. I have a controller with a RequestMapping for several GET parameters. They return a String .
But one method needs to return a file in the “/res/” folder. How do I do that?

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET,value = "/getfile")
public @ResponseBody 
String getReviewedFile(@RequestParam("fileName") String fileName)
{
    return //the File Content or better the file itself
}

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks to @JAR.JAR.beans. Here is the link: Downloading a file from spring controllers

@RequestMapping(value = "/files/{file_name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
@ResponseBody 
public FileSystemResource getFile(@PathVariable("file_name") String fileName) {
    return new FileSystemResource(myService.getFileFor(fileName)); 
}