In my scala app I have an api method I want to use to a click on a button this api method will be triggered and a file that im creating on the spot will be downloaded to the client computer from the browser.
This is my api method:
def downloadFile = Action {
// creating a new empty file
val file = new File("outputFile.csv")
// creating a write that opens the file
val writer = CSVWriter.open(file)
// writing to the file
writer.writeAll(**some csv content**)
writer.close()
Ok.sendFile(file, inline = false, _ => file.getName)
}
this works, but the problem is that it downloading the file to the project directory folder...instead of downloading the file from the browser to my computer as I want it to be.