Downloading a File from Amazon S3 with Script Canvas

You can use the AWSBehaviorS3Download node in Script Canvas to download a file from an Amazon S3 bucket.

Topics

Step 1: Prepare a Test File for Download
Step 2: Add Nodes to Download a File from Amazon S3
Step 3: Add Nodes to Display the Result
Step 4: Test Download the File from Amazon S3

Step 1: Prepare a Test File for Download

The following procedure shows you how to upload a file to Amazon S3 that you can later download with a Script Canvas script.

To prepare a test file for download from Amazon S3

In a text editor, create a plain text file and save it as downloadtest.txt.
In a text editor, open the lumberyard_version\dev\Cache\CloudGemSamples\pc\user\AWS\user-settings.json file.
In the user-settings.json file, locate the Amazon S3 name for the CloudGemAWSScriptBehaviors.s3nodeexamples bucket. The Amazon S3 bucket name is in the string for the PhysicalResourceId attribute, as in the following example:
```
"CloudGemAWSScriptBehaviors.s3nodeexamples": {
    "PhysicalResourceId": "cgsamples14-221-cgsamples14-221dep-s3nodeexamples-16ud5gt53zjx7", 
    "ResourceType": "AWS::S3::Bucket"
```
In Lumberyard Editor, choose AWS, Open AWS Console, S3.
In the Amazon S3 management console, open the bucket that you identified in step 3.
Click Upload to upload the downloadtest.txt to the bucket that is mapped to CloudGemAWSScriptBehaviors.s3nodeexamples.

Step 2: Add Nodes to Download a File from Amazon S3

Now you can create a Script Canvas script that downloads the file.

To create a Script Canvas script to download a file from Amazon S3

In Lumberyard Editor, click Tools, Script Canvas.
In the Node Palette, expand Utilities and drag On Graph Start to the canvas.
On the right, in Variable Manager, click Create Variable.
In the Variable Type search box, enter AWSBehaviorS3Download, or scroll down to AWSBehaviorS3Download.
Click AWSBehaviorS3Download. In Node Inspector, AWSBehaviorS3Download Variable appears. The default name of the variable is Variable 1.
In Node Inspector, expand AWSBehaviorS3Download to show the input fields. Type the values in the following table into the corresponding boxes.

[See the AWS documentation website for more details]

From the Variable Manager, press Shift and drag Variable 1 AWSBehaviorS3Download to the canvas to create the Get Variable 1 node. (You can also drag AWSBehaviorS3Download to the canvas and then select Get Variable from the drop-down menu.)
Connect the Out pin of the On Graph Start node to the In pin of the Get Variable 1 node.
In the Node Palette, expand AWS, AWSBehaviorS3Download.
Drag the Download node to the right of the Get Variable 1 node on the canvas.
Connect the Out pin of the Get Variable 1 node to the In pin of the Download node.
Connect the AWSBehaviorS3Download pin of the Get Variable 1 node to the AWSBehaviorS3Download:0 pin of the Download node.

Step 3: Add Nodes to Display the Result

Next, to see the success or failure of the operation, you add AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus nodes and a Print node to the graph. The nodes monitor for AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus events and show you the result in the Lumberyard console window.

To display the success or failure of the download operation in the console window

In the Node Palette, expand AWS, AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus.
Drag OnError to the canvas and place the node under the three nodes that are already connected.
Drag OnSuccess to the canvas and place it under the OnError node.
In the Node Palette, expand Utilities, Debug and drag Print to the right of the two AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus nodes on the canvas. The Print node displays messages in the Lumberyard Editor console.
Connect the Out pins of the AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus OnError and OnSuccess nodes to the In pin of the Print node.
Connect the String pins of the AWSBehaviorS3DownloadNotificationBus OnError and OnSuccess nodes to the Value pin on the Print node. Your canvas should look similar to the following image:
Save the canvas with a name like MyS3DownloadTest.scriptcanvas. The default file location is the lumberyard_version\dev\project_name\scriptcanvas directory.
Exit the Script Canvas editor.

Step 4: Test Download the File from Amazon S3

Now you are ready to attach the script canvas to an entity and test it.

To test downloading a file from Amazon S3

In Lumberyard Editor, right-click the viewport and choose Create entity.
In Entity Inspector, click Add Component.
Under Scripting, click Script Canvas to add a Script Canvas component to the entity.
Under Script Canvas, click the browse button (...).
In the Pick Script Canvas dialog box, choose the canvas that you created - for example, mys3downloadtest (Script Canvas), and then click OK.
If the Lumberyard console window is not already open, press ~ or choose Tools, Console to open the console window. If the console window is already open and you want to clear it, press Ctrl+Shift+C.
Press Ctrl+G to start the level. The console reports the success of the operation as follows.
```
(Script Canvas) - File Downloaded
```
The file s3downloadtest file is downloaded to the lumberyard_version\dev directory.