PrimeFaces fileDownload does not work

Question

I can't get the primeFaces <p:filedownload work. While I succeed in downloading the file using a custom download bean. Seems like the issu is related to the primefaces file download ActionListener but I don't see how. Does anyone have a clue? Thanks.

Here is my bean:

@ManagedBean(name="fileDownloadBean")
@SessionScoped
public class FileDownloadBean implements Serializable {

    private StreamedContent file;

    public StreamedContent getFile() {
        return file;
    }

    public void setFile(StreamedContent file) {
        this.file = file;
    }

    /** Creates a new instance of FileDownloadBean */
    public FileDownloadBean() {
        InputStream stream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sessionlog.csv");
        file = new DefaultStreamedContent(stream, "application/csv", "sessionlog.csv");

    }
}

and here is my view code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
                xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
                xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui" 
                xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
                xmlns:o="http://openfaces.org/"
                template="./../template.xhtml">

    <ui:define name="title">
        #{bundle.Log}
    </ui:define>

    <ui:define name="body">
        <h:form>
            <p:separator style="height: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-top: 0px;"/>
            <p:commandButton value="#{bundle.Log}" image="ui-icon ui-icon-link" ajax="false" disabled="false">
                <p:fileDownload value="#{fileDownloadBean.file}" />
            </p:commandButton>
</ui:composition>

I get a 500 error: NullPointerException :

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

descriptionThe server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException
root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
note The full stack traces of the exception and its root causes are available in the GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 logs.

GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1

LOG:

WARNING: StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: PWC1406: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.primefaces.component.filedownload.FileDownloadActionListener.processAction(FileDownloadActionListener.java:59)
    at javax.faces.event.ActionEvent.processListener(ActionEvent.java:88)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.broadcast(UIComponentBase.java:769)
    at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:300)
    at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:794)
    at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1259)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationPhase.execute(InvokeApplicationPhase.java:81)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
    at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
    at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:409)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1534)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:98)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:91)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:162)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:326)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:227)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:170)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:822)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:719)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1013)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
    at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
    at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
    at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
    at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
    at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Answer 1

InputStream stream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sessionlog.csv");

The way as you have located the CSV file expects it to be in the same package as the current class, the FileDownloadBean.

If it is actually located in the package root, then you should rather be using:

InputStream stream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/sessionlog.csv");

Or if it is actually located in a different package, for example com.example, then you should rather be using:

InputStream stream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/com/example/sessionlog.csv");

Or if it is actually located in the root of the public webcontent (there where the /WEB-INF folder also is, among all other web files), then you should rather be using:

InputStream stream = externalContext.getResourceAsStream("/sessionlog.csv");

(which by the way also works fine for the WAR classes instead of this.getClass())