Grails Goodness: Render Binary Output with the File Attribute
Since Grails 2 we can render binary output with the render() method and the file attribute. The file attribute can be assigned a byte[], File, InputStream or String value. Grails will try to determine the content type for files, but we can also use the contentType attribute to set the content type.
In the following controller we find an image in our application using grailsResourceLocator. Then we use the render() method and the file and contenType attributes to render the image in a browser:
