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 + "\n");
}

writer.close();

Answer 1

Though the code written in Mauricio's answer will work - and his point about streams is of course correct - Amazon offers a quicker way to save files in their SDK. I don't know if it wasn't available in 2011 or not, but it is now.

AmazonS3Client s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(myCredentials);

File localFile = new File("localFilename");

ObjectMetadata object = s3Client.getObject(new GetObjectRequest("bucket", "s3FileName"), localFile);