I'm using FastAPI and currently I return a csv which I read from SQL server with pandas. (pd.read_sql()) However the csv is quite big for the browser and I want to return it with a File response: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/custom-response/ (end of the page). I cannot seem to do this without first writing it to a csv file which seems slow and will clutter the filesystem with csv's on every request.

So my questions way, is there way to return a FileResponse from a sql database or pandas dataframe.

And if not, is there a way to delete the generated csv files, after it has all been read by the client?

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,

Stephan

Based HEAVILY off this https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/1277

1. Turn your dataframe into a stream
2. use a streaming response
3. Modify headers so it's a download (optional)

    from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
    import io
    
    @app.get("/get_csv")
    async def get_csv():
    
       df = pandas.DataFrame(dict(col1 = 1, col2 = 2))
    
       stream = io.StringIO()
    
       df.to_csv(stream, index = False)
    
       response = StreamingResponse(iter([stream.getvalue()]),
                            media_type="text/csv"
       )
    
       response.headers["Content-Disposition"] = "attachment; filename=export.csv"

       return response