Response from controller class-CodePudding

I have a controller class that someone at work wrote that contains a method that looks like this.

(obviously it's not the full code, just the part I find confusing). It's part of a ASP.Net Core project.

var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
var result = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);

using (var stream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(newZipPath))
{
    stream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
    result.Content = new ByteArrayContent(memoryStream.ToArray());
}

return File(memoryStream.ToArray(), "application/zip");

Now I'm not that good at C# but it feels like that "result" variable is not going to be sent anywhere or used? Am I correct or does ASP.Net Core have some magic way of sending this result as well as the one in the return statement.

CodePudding user response：

That's correct. There doesn't appear to be any point in the result variable, ASP.Net MVC (both Framework and Core versions) will generate an appropriate FileResult from File(memoryStream.ToArray(), "application/zip");.

You could go one step further and really reduce this code even more:

using (var stream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(newZipPath))
{
    return File(stream, "application/zip");
}

No need to create a second MemoryStream ar convert it to a byte array.