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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 Ruby Downloads

Ruby
require 'chilkat'

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# 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")

bucketName = "chilkat-test-bucket"

objectName = "fruit.xml"

charset = "utf-8"

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

if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    # Failed
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
else
    # Success
    print fileContents + "\n";
end