How to Serve a Zip File With Spring Boot @RequestMapping

Date: 2024-12-13

This article demonstrates how to serve zip files from a Spring Boot application using @RequestMapping. It details several methods within a Spring Boot controller (UnifiedZipController) to create and serve zip files: creating a zip file in memory as a byte array, streaming the zip file directly, adding compression, and even password-protecting the zip using the zip4j library. The examples utilize @GetMapping annotations to define endpoints for each method. Necessary dependencies and configuration details (including application.properties) are also provided.

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