is possible to server from a file imported using include_bytes! macro?

[johnyenter-briars]

Greetings Rocket Experts,

I would like to package my Rocket application as a stand alone binary.

So, I would like to use include_bytes! macro to include a singular html file statically.

Is there a way I can still serve the file using NamedFile or something similar? I looked at the docs and didn't see any applicable API.

Am I missing a possible solution? Or does this feature just not exist in Rocket?

Thanks!

[jebrosen]

NamedFile is used specifically to serve files from disk; there's no need to use it at the same time as include_bytes!.

Am I missing a possible solution? Or does this feature just not exist in Rocket?

Not only is it possible, it's intended to be pretty straightforward to do things like this! For example:

use rocket::http::ContentType;

#[get("/example.png")]
fn image() -> (ContentType, &'static [u8]) {
    (ContentType::PNG, include_bytes!("/tmp/example.png"))
}

[johnyenter-briars]

Ok - thank you! Will NamedFile still package the bytes into the stand along binary when built for release? The objective is that I don't want to serve files from disk, I want to serve files which are packaged in the stand alone binary.