Add ability to download and display files from the controller

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We need to be able to download files from the web. We may do something like generate PDF’s and then need to be able to force that download (or display it in the browser)

What do we currently have to do now? We simply cannot do it now

Describe the solution you’d like We need something like this in the controller:

from masonite.helpers import Download

def show(self):
     return Download('/some/file.pdf')

This will display it properly in the browser. We should also be able to force the download:

from masonite.helpers import Download

def show(self):
     return Download(open('/some/file.pdf'), force=True)

or

from masonite.helpers import Download

def show(self):
     return Download('/some/file.pdf').force()

• Is this a breaking change?

Additional context This will entail moving away from compiling everything to string (and then bytes at the end) to converting everything to bytes.

This will also require a change to the start.py file.

[josephmancuso]

That’s fair. I like it

[josephmancuso]

@girardinsamuel I think if we go that route we would need to open a dedicated issue for that but I think we should approach something like that in the near feature. Preferably after 2.3 is released. Since this is staged in 2.3 I’ll close this