Lumen, How to load a file that is out of the project

1
votes

I have a pdf file inside the documents folder of my user, which I need to return through a route. For this I wrote the following simple function

public function showPdf(){
    return response()->file('/home/victor/Documents/1-39-1.pdf');
}

But when I call this function through a GET, the browser returns the following exception

Method Laravel\Lumen\Http\ResponseFactory::file does not exist.

How can I tell lumen that my file is on that path?

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phplaravellumen

1 Answers

1
votes

In lumen 7.x this method is named download and can be seen here. This is fairly similar to Laravels file(), therefor this change should work.

return response()->download('/home/victor/Documents/1-39-1.pdf');