File Download

How to Download a File in OpenFin

Current Capabilities:

• API ability to know a file started to download, its progress, and whether its completed
• API ability to launch the file
• API ability to develop UI interface for end-users (this is not out of the box from OpenFin)

Download File API

Window, Application and System all have events to facilitate file download

• Window: file-download-started, file-download-progress and file-download-completed
• Application and System: window-file-download-started, window-file-download-progress and window-file-download-completed

All events provide general information about the file being downloaded and include a fileUuid property, which is a unique identifier that can be used to tie events together and can be passed to System.launchExternalProcess to launch the file.