From 6efc375112fdef5bd58fe62e26a8ba907b7736fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deepak Jose <deepakjosp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:15:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes CORS error when downloading attachments. (#1254)

* Refactored the download util to directly use the file url instead of fetching the file content using axios.

* Removed the unused file download api file.
---
 src/apis/file_download.js           |  9 ---------
 src/components/Attachments/utils.js | 12 +++---------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/apis/file_download.js

diff --git a/src/apis/file_download.js b/src/apis/file_download.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 85aa960e..00000000
--- a/src/apis/file_download.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-import axios from "axios";
-
-const newAxiosInstance = axios.create();
-
-const getFile = url => newAxiosInstance.get(url, { responseType: "blob" });
-
-const fileDownloadApi = { getFile };
-
-export default fileDownloadApi;
diff --git a/src/components/Attachments/utils.js b/src/components/Attachments/utils.js
index 54681c95..81b4b1c7 100644
--- a/src/components/Attachments/utils.js
+++ b/src/components/Attachments/utils.js
@@ -1,29 +1,23 @@
 import { Toastr } from "neetoui";
 import { mergeRight } from "ramda";
 
-import fileDownloadApi from "apis/file_download";
-
 import { DEFAULT_FILE_UPLOAD_CONFIG } from "./constants";
 
 export const buildFileUploadConfig = config =>
   mergeRight(DEFAULT_FILE_UPLOAD_CONFIG, config);
 
-export const downloadFile = async (fileUrl, filename) => {
+export const downloadFile = (fileUrl, filename) => {
   try {
-    const response = await fileDownloadApi.getFile(fileUrl);
-    const blob = new Blob([response.data]);
-    const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
-
     const a = document.createElement("a");
-    a.href = url;
+    a.href = fileUrl;
     a.setAttribute("download", filename);
+    a.setAttribute("target", "_blank");
 
     a.style.display = "none";
     document.body.appendChild(a);
 
     a.click();
 
-    URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
     document.body.removeChild(a);
   } catch (error) {
     Toastr.error(error);