How to return blob in Joomla 5 API

Question

I am writing a custom plugin API that should return PDF, I am using Joomla 5 but I see that it only supports JSON as a return via the View, not only that, but it also requires you to be working with Full MVC structure, is there a away to not do that? I want the flexibility to return a blob or text or whatever from inside the Controller.

class ProductsController extends ApiController
{
 protected $contentType = '';
 protected $default_view = '';

 public function displayList()
 {
 // I need to be able to return here a blob or whatever i want, right now if i return anything the content type in postmen is always "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
 }
}

And this is the view that I don't really need, but it's mandatory by Joomla:

class JsonapiView extends BaseApiView
{
        protected $fieldsToRenderList = [];

        protected $fieldsToRenderItem = [];
}

For reference, these are the docs: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Adding_an_API_to_a_Joomla_Component/en

I did try to just return inside the displayList method but it's not working.

Ayoub El Moudni · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-10 11:03:37Z

0

I found the solution, it was simple by using the header method and exiting after it in the 'displayList' method like so:

header('Content-Type:application/pdf');
exit();

answered Jan 10 at 11:03

Ayoub El Moudni

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