Tutorial: Uploading an Downloading files with Spring Boot

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/callicoder/spring-boot-file-upload-download-rest-api-example.git

2. Specify the file uploads directory

Open src/main/resources/application.properties file and change the property file.upload-dir to the path where you want the uploaded files to be stored.

file.upload-dir=/Users/callicoder/uploads

2. Run the app using maven

cd spring-boot-file-upload-download-rest-api-example
mvn spring-boot:run

That's it! The application can be accessed at http://localhost:8080.

You may also package the application in the form of a jar and then run the jar file like so -

mvn clean package
java -jar target/file-demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar