as_attachment: Return an attachment response

In plumber: An API Generator for R

Return an attachment response

Description

This will set the appropriate fields in the Content-Disposition header value. To make sure the attachment is used, be sure your serializer eventually calls serializer_headers

Usage

as_attachment(value, filename = NULL)

Arguments

value	Response value to be saved
filename	File name to use when saving the attachment. If no filename is provided, the value will be treated as a regular attachment

Value

Object with class "plumber_attachment"

Examples

## Not run: 
# plumber.R

#' @get /data
#' @serializer csv
function() {
  # will cause the file to be saved as `iris.csv`, not `data` or `data.csv`
  as_attachment(iris, "iris.csv")
}

## End(Not run)

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