Content Service

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The Content Service enables scripts to serve content like text, XML, or JSON, offering flexibility in data delivery.

• Developers can utilize the ContentService class to generate and manipulate text output within their scripts.

• MimeType aids in specifying the desired format for content delivery, accommodating various data types like CSV, JSON, and more.

• The TextOutput class provides methods for managing the content, allowing for appending, clearing, and setting the output's format.

• Content served through scripts can be customized for display in browsers or downloaded as files, offering versatile content handling.

Content

This service allows scripts to serve text in various forms, such as text, XML, or JSON. See also the guide to Content Service. If you deploy the following script as a web app, you will see "Hello, world!" in the browser:

function doGet() {
  return ContentService.createTextOutput('Hello, world!');
}

Classes

Name	Brief description
ContentService	Service for returning text content from a script.
MimeType	An enum for mime types that can be served from a script.
TextOutput	A TextOutput object that can be served from a script.

ContentService

Properties

Property	Type	Description
MimeType	MimeType

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
createTextOutput()	TextOutput	Create a new TextOutput object.
createTextOutput(content)	TextOutput	Create a new TextOutput object that can serve the given content.

MimeType

Properties

Property	Type	Description
CSV	Enum	CSV Mime Type
ICAL	Enum	ICAL Mime Type
JAVASCRIPT	Enum	JAVASCRIPT Mime Type
JSON	Enum	JSON Mime Type
TEXT	Enum	TEXT Mime Type
VCARD	Enum	VCARD Mime Type

TextOutput

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
append(addedContent)	TextOutput	Appends new content to the content that will be served.
clear()	TextOutput	Clears the current content.
downloadAsFile(filename)	TextOutput	Tells browsers to download rather than display this content.
getContent()	String	Gets the content that will be served.
getFileName()	String	Returns the file name to download this file as, or null if it should be displayed rather than downloaded.
getMimeType()	MimeType	Get the mime type this content will be served with.
setContent(content)	TextOutput	Sets the content that will be served.
setMimeType(mimeType)	TextOutput	Sets the mime type for content that will be served.