Symfony2 – Download Filestream as StreamedResponse

Sometimes you just get some content in form of a byte stream and you want to make a file out of it and download it.

Here is a short tutorial on how to do this with a StreamedResponse in Symfony2 and how you can write a functional test to validate the basics for the action.

Step 1 would be to write the test:

	/**
	 * @test
	 */
	public function canDownloadFile() {

		$crawler = $this->client->request('GET', '/reports/download/1');

		$this->assertEquals(200, $this->client->getResponse()->getStatusCode(), 'Wrong status code');
		$this->assertEquals('application/pdf', $this->client->getResponse()->headers->get('Content-Type'), 'Wrong content type');
		$this->assertContains('yourFilename.pdf', $this->client->getResponse()->headers->get('Content-Disposition'), 'Wrong filename');
	}

/**

* @test

public function canDownloadFile() {

$crawler = $this->client->request('GET', '/reports/download/1');

$this->assertEquals(200, $this->client->getResponse()->getStatusCode(), 'Wrong status code');

$this->assertEquals('application/pdf', $this->client->getResponse()->headers->get('Content-Type'), 'Wrong content type');

$this->assertContains('yourFilename.pdf', $this->client->getResponse()->headers->get('Content-Disposition'), 'Wrong filename');

}

Now all the tests should be very red, so it is the right time implementing the controller. I don’t show how to set up the route for that, just how the controller looks like.

	/**
	 * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request
	 * @param int $pdfReportId
	 *
	 * @return \Symfony\Component\Form\Form|\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
	 */
	public function downloadAction(Request $request, $pdfReportId) {
		$this->initRepositories();
		$report = $this->reportRepository->findById($pdfReportId);

		$response = new StreamedResponse(
			function () use ($report) {
				echo base64_decode($report->getFileContent());
			});

		$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/pdf');
		$response->headers->set('Cache-Control', '');
		$response->headers->set('Content-Length', strlen($report->getFileContent()));
		$response->headers->set('Last-Modified', gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s'));
		$contentDisposition = $response->headers->makeDisposition(ResponseHeaderBag::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT, 'yourFilename.pdf');
		$response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', $contentDisposition);
		$response->prepare($request);

		return $response;
	}

/**

* @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request

* @param int $pdfReportId

* @return \Symfony\Component\Form\Form|\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response

public function downloadAction(Request $request, $pdfReportId) {

$this->initRepositories();

$report = $this->reportRepository->findById($pdfReportId);

$response = new StreamedResponse(

function () use ($report) {

echo base64_decode($report->getFileContent());

});

$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/pdf');

$response->headers->set('Cache-Control', '');

$response->headers->set('Content-Length', strlen($report->getFileContent()));

$response->headers->set('Last-Modified', gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s'));

$contentDisposition = $response->headers->makeDisposition(ResponseHeaderBag::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT, 'yourFilename.pdf');

$response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', $contentDisposition);

$response->prepare($request);

return $response;

}

At the place where I call $report->getFileContent you can also use a buffer to read for example a large file.

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