No send_data to send files as response

Im generating a xls file using the gem axlsxand in Rails I use send_data method to send back the file as response but there is no related method on jets.

How to send back files?

Thanks!

Jets currently does not support send_data method. Will consider a PR for this. However, this may be useful to know. There are some issues with sending binary data on API Gateway that limits the usefulness of send_data.

When I was playing with sending binary data via send_data, had some issues with things like images. Here’s a post with some details on this issue https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=243584

Essentially, some binary files do not get served correctly unless the client sends specific Accept headers. Examples:

Does not work:

curl URL -H 'Accept: image/webp,image/*, **/** ;q=0.8' https://api-gateway-dns/image.png # responds with base64 text while

Works:

curl URL -H 'Accept: image/webp' https://api-gateway-dns/image.png # responds with image correclty

This is important because with web browsers we don’t control the Accept header when the url is being hit directly. IE: An HTML img tag. So they don’t get served correctly.

At that point, I paused work on send_data and ended up serving binary data or assets out of s3 instead.

This is also a reason why files in the public folder are automatically uploaded to s3 and jets serves them out of s3 as part of the jets deploy process: Jets Assets Serving

Thanks,

I changed my approach to send data to S3.

Thanks for your help!

Sorry to resurrect an old discussion, but I came across this while trying to figure out how to stream an image directly from a controller.

There is still no implementation of send_data but I was able to get an image to display in the browser with the following incantation:

render(body: @image.write_to_buffer(".jpg"), content_type: "image/jpeg", "isBase64Encoded": true, headers: {'Content-Disposition': "inline", 'Content-Transfer-Encoding': 'binary'} )

That and the binary media settings in application.rb as:

config.api.binary_media_types = ['multipart/form-data','image/jpeg','image/png', '*/*']

I tried both sets of Accept Headers quoted above and they worked.

Perhaps the underlying issue with AWS has been resolved since the original post?