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Download response.data as a file, through Blob()
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| // 'downloadFile.js', written by blending two solutions: | |
| // 'js-download' https://github.com/kennethjiang/js-file-download | |
| // 'Anders Paulsen' https://blog.jayway.com/2017/07/13/open-pdf-downloaded-api-javascript/ | |
| export function downloadFile(data, filename, mime) { | |
| // It is necessary to create a new blob object with mime-type explicitly set | |
| // otherwise only Chrome works like it should | |
| const blob = new Blob([data], {type: mime || 'application/octet-stream'}); | |
| if (typeof window.navigator.msSaveBlob !== 'undefined') { | |
| // IE doesn't allow using a blob object directly as link href. |