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S3 Download String Object

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Demonstrates how to download a text file (i.e. object) from the Amazon S3 service directly into an in-memory string variable.

Chilkat Java Downloads

Java
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // Insert your access key here:
    http.put_AwsAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");

    // Insert your secret key here:
    http.put_AwsSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");

    // This bucket is in the us-east-1 region.
    http.put_AwsRegion("us-east-1");

    String bucketName = "chilkat-test-bucket";

    String objectName = "fruit.xml";

    String charset = "utf-8";

    String fileContents;
    fileContents = http.s3_DownloadString(bucketName,objectName,charset);

    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        // Failed
        System.out.println(http.lastErrorText());
        }
    else {
        // Success
        System.out.println(fileContents);
        }
  }
}