Responses

You can use a Regular REST Framework's Response to create a PDF file response, but DRF PDF includes PDFResponse as a nice way to do it and it also includes some PDF file metadata.

Example:

from rest_framework import status
from drf_pdf.response import PDFResponse

response = PDFResponse(
    pdf=pdf,
    file_name=pdf_id,
    status=status.HTTP_200_OK
)

Arguments:

• pdf: A byte array with the PDF file content.

• file_name: The default downloaded file name

Another option is DRF PDF PDFFileResponse. Different from PDFResponse, PDFFileResponse accepts the path of a pdf file and loads the pdf content from file system.

Example:

from rest_framework import status
from drf_pdf.response import PDFFileResponse

response = PDFFileResponse(
    file_path='/path/to/file.pdf',
    status=status.HTTP_200_OK
)

Arguments:

• file_path: The PDF file path (to load file from file system).

You can also include REST Framework's Response arguments on both responses.