Sometimes, we want to show a PDF file in a Python Django view.
In this article, we’ll look at how to show a PDF file in a Python Django view.
How to show a PDF file in a Python Django view?
To show a PDF file in a Python Django view, we can create a FileResponse and return it.
For instance, we write
from django.http import FileResponse, Http404
def pdf_view(request):
try:
return FileResponse(open('foobar.pdf', 'rb'), content_type='application/pdf')
except FileNotFoundError:
raise Http404()
to create the pdf_view view that returns the FileResponse object that we create by opening the foobar.pdf PDF file.
We set the content_type argument to 'application/pdf' to make the client know that the file is a PDF.
If the file isn’t found, then we return a 404 response with Http404.
Conclusion
To show a PDF file in a Python Django view, we can create a FileResponse and return it.
