rawResponse, 4.1.1, readme

README.markdown

@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ object Example extends FinatraApp {
     //delete the file here
   }
 
+
+  // use rawResponse to send bytes instead of strings
+  get("/file") { request =>
+    val file = GetTheFile(params.get("file"))
+    rawResponse(body=file.toBytes)
+  }
 }
 ```
 

pom.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.posterous</groupId>
   <artifactId>finatra</artifactId>
-  <version>4.1.0</version>
+  <version>4.1.1</version>
   <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
   <description>Sinatra clone on top of finagle-http</description>
   <inceptionYear>2012</inceptionYear>

src/main/scala/com/posterous/finatra/FinatraApp.scala

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ class FinatraApp extends FinatraController {
     response(status=301, body="moved", headers=Map("Location" -> url))
   }
 
+
+  // TODO: refactor these 2 methods some how
   def response(status:Int = 200, body: String, headers: Map[String,String] = Map()) = {
     val responseStatus = HttpResponseStatus.valueOf(status)
     val resp = new DefaultHttpResponse(HTTP_1_1, responseStatus)
@@ -33,6 +35,16 @@ class FinatraApp extends FinatraController {
     Future.value(resp)
   }
 
+  def rawResponse(status:Int = 200, body: Array[Byte], headers: Map[String,String] = Map()) = {
+    val responseStatus = HttpResponseStatus.valueOf(status)
+    val resp = new DefaultHttpResponse(HTTP_1_1, responseStatus)
+    headers.foreach { xs =>
+      resp.setHeader(xs._1, xs._2)
+    }
+    resp.setContent(copiedBuffer(body))
+    Future.value(resp)
+  }
+
   def toJson(obj: Any) = {
     response(body=generate(obj), headers=Map("Content-Type" -> "application/json"))
   }