what’s the correct way to send a file from REST web service to client?

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I don’t recommend encoding binary data in base64 and wrapping it in JSON. It will just needlessly increase the size of the response and slow things down.

Simply serve your file data using GET and application/octect-streamusing one of the factory methods of javax.ws.rs.core.Response (part of the JAX-RS API, so you’re not locked into Jersey):

@GET
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
public Response getFile() {
  File file = ... // Initialize this to the File path you want to serve.
  return Response.ok(file, MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
      .header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + file.getName() + "\"" ) //optional
      .build();
}

If you don’t have an actual File object, but an InputStream, Response.ok(entity, mediaType) should be able to handle that as well.

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