Strive to Upload Or Download Files using Spring Boot Rest API!!!

This article will dive through the steps to Upload or Download files of any format. The REST endpoints can be integrated with React js or Angular app or any other front-end framework that is used in your project. Interesting right ??

In this article, we will cover:

• Usage of Uploading or Downloading files.
• How is it possible to facilitate Upload or Download files using Spring Boot?
• Implementation
• API Testing using Postman

Uploading and Downloading Files is one of the core functionality that any Enterprise Application wants to incorporate. No matter whichever file format an application is associated with ,it is the responsibility of a developer to ease the end-customer by Uploading or Downloading files.

Let’s try to figure out the possibility available in Spring Boot framework.

How is it possible to facilitate Upload or Download files using Spring Boot?

Spring Boot comes along with an amazing MultipartFile interface which allows us to Upload or Download Files. It helps to retrieve many information regarding file like original file name, size, content type , bytes etc. You can read more on this here.