amazon s3 - AWS S3 Java SDK - Download file help

Question

The code below only works for downloading text files from a bucket in S3. This does not work for an image. Is there an easier way to manage downloads/types using the AWS SDK? The example included in the documentation does not make it apparent. Thanks!

AWSCredentials myCredentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(
       String.valueOf(Constants.act), String.valueOf(Constants.sk)); 
AmazonS3Client s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(myCredentials);        
S3Object object = s3Client.getObject(new GetObjectRequest("bucket", "file"));

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
       object.getObjectContent()));
File file = new File("localFilename");      
Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file));

while (true) {          
     String line = reader.readLine();           
     if (line == null)
          break;            

     writer.write(line + "
");
}

writer.close();

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6903255/aws-s3-java-sdk-download-file-help

Answer 1

Instead of Reader and Writer classes you should be using InputStream and OutputStream classes:

InputStream reader = new BufferedInputStream(
   object.getObjectContent());
File file = new File("localFilename");      
OutputStream writer = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));

int read = -1;

while ( ( read = reader.read() ) != -1 ) {
    writer.write(read);
}

writer.flush();
writer.close();
reader.close();