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Updated on 2023-11-09 GMT+08:00

Performing a Partial Download

When only partial data of an object is required, you can download data falling within a specific range. If the specified range is 0 to 1000, data at the 0th to the 1000th bytes, 1001 bytes in total, will be returned. If the specified range is invalid, data of the whole object will be returned.

static OBSClient *client;
NSString *endPoint = @"your-endpoint";
// Hard-coded or plaintext AK/SK are risky. For security purposes, encrypt your AK/SK and store them in the configuration file or environment variables. In this example, the AK/SK are stored in environment variables for identity authentication. Before running this example, configure environment variables AccessKeyID and SecretAccessKey.
// Obtain an AK/SK pair on the management console. For details, see https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/usermanual-ca/ca_01_0003.html.
char* ak_env = getenv("AccessKeyID");
char* sk_env = getenv("SecretAccessKey");
NSString *AK = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:ak_env];
NSString *SK = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:sk_env];
    
// Initialize identity authentication.
OBSStaticCredentialProvider *credentialProvider = [[OBSStaticCredentialProvider alloc] initWithAccessKey:AK secretKey:SK];
    
//Initialize service configuration.
OBSServiceConfiguration *conf = [[OBSServiceConfiguration alloc] initWithURLString:endPoint credentialProvider:credentialProvider];
    
// Initialize an instance of OBSClient.
client = [[OBSClient alloc] initWithConfiguration:conf];
    
// Streaming download
OBSGetObjectToDataRequest *request = [[OBSGetObjectToDataRequest alloc]initWithBucketName:@"bucketname" objectKey:@"objectname"];
    
// Set the start and end positions of the download range to 0 and 10000 respectively.
request.range = @"bytes=0-1000";
    
//Query the download progress.
request.downloadProgressBlock = ^(int64_t bytesWritten, int64_t totalBytesWritten, int64_t totalBytesExpectedToWrite) {
    NSLog(@"%0.1f%%",(float)(totalBytesWritten)*100/(float)totalBytesExpectedToWrite);
};
    
// Receive downloaded data.
__block NSMutableData *objectData = [NSMutableData new];
request.onReceiveDataBlock = ^(NSData *data) {
    [objectData appendData:data];
};
    
// Download result
[client getObject:request completionHandler:^(OBSGetObjectResponse *response, NSError *error){
    NSLog(@"%@",response);
}] ;
  • If the specified range is invalid (because the start or end position is set to a negative integer or the range is longer than the object length), data of the whole object will be returned.