Merge pull request #153 from Kibibit/feature-add-download-api

[Feature] Add download file api

Author: ortichon

app/models/downloadService.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+var console = require('./consoleService')('DOWNLOAD', ['inverse']);
+
+var downloadService = {};
+
+downloadService.get = function(req, res) {
+  try {
+    var fileFullPath = req.params.file_id;
+    res.download(fileFullPath);
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error('Couldn\'t send file to client');
+  }
+};
+
+module.exports = downloadService;

app/models/fileService.js

@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ fileService.get = function(req, res) {
     };
     res.json(file);
   } else if (isFileOfType('font')) {
-    res.download(fileFullPath); // Set disposition and send it.
+    var file = {
+      mimeType: mimeType,
+      path: fileFullPath
+    };
+    res.json(file);
   } else {
     fs.readFile(fileFullPath, 'utf8', function(err, data) {
       if (err) {

app/routes/api.js

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ module.exports = function(app, express) {
   var fileService = require('../models/fileService.js'),
       folderService = require('../models/folderService.js'),
       userHomeDirectoryService =
-        require('../models/userHomeDirectoryService.js');
+        require('../models/userHomeDirectoryService.js'),
+      downloadService = require('../models/downloadService.js');
 
   var apiRouter = express.Router();
 
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ module.exports = function(app, express) {
       // hard delete the directory content with this id. This means all the files inside are deleted recursively
       .delete(folderService.deleteExtraArg);
 
+  apiRouter.route('/download/:file_id')
+      .get(downloadService.get);
+
   apiRouter.route('/userHomeDirectory/')
       .get(userHomeDirectoryService.get);