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Byte range requests in Play 2 Java Controllers. Eg. for serving MP4 video files to iPhone etc.
public class ByteRangeRequestsController extends Controller {
// 206 Partial content Byte range requests
private static Result stream(long start, long length, File file) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
fis.skip(start);
response().setContentType(MimeTypes.forExtension("mp4").get());
response().setHeader(CONTENT_LENGTH, ((length - start) +1l)+"");
response().setHeader(CONTENT_RANGE, String.format("bytes %d-%d/%d", start, length,file.length()));
response().setHeader(ACCEPT_RANGES, "bytes");
response().setHeader(CONNECTION, "keep-alive");
return status(PARTIAL_CONTENT, fis);
}
// GET a file item
public static Result file(Long id, String filename) throws IOException {
Item item = Item.fetch(id);
File file = item.getFile();
if(file== null || !file.exists()) {
Logger.error("File no longer exist item"+id+" filename:"+filename);
return notFound();
}
String rangeheader = request().getHeader(RANGE);
if(rangeheader != null) {
String[] split = rangeheader.substring("bytes=".length()).split("-");
if(Logger.isDebugEnabled()) { Logger.debug("Range header is:"+rangeheader); }
if(split.length == 1) {
long start = Long.parseLong(split[0]);
long length = file.length()-1l;
return stream(start, length, file);
} else {
long start = Long.parseLong(split[0]);
long length = Long.parseLong(split[1]);
return stream(start, length, file);
}
}
// if no streaming is required we simply return the file as a 200 OK
if(Play.isProd()) {
response().setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=3600, must-revalidate");
}
return ok(file);
}
}
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