Download file from Amazon S3 using REST API

Question

I have my own REST API to call in order to download a file. (At the end, the file could be store in different kind of server... Amazon s3, loca

Answer 1

Instead of using a redirect to download the desired file, just return back an unbufferedStream instead from S3. An unbufferedStream can be returned from the HttpResponse within the AWS-SDK. This means there is no need to download the file from S3, then read it in, and then have the requester download the file.

FYI I use this getObject() approach with Express and have never used Hapi, however I think that I'm pretty close with the route definition but hopefully it will capture the essence of what I'm trying to achieve.

Hapi.js route

const getObject = require('./getObject');

{
    method: "GET", path: "/downloadFile",
    config: {auth: false},
    handler: function (request, reply) {
        let key = ''; // get key from request
        let bucket = ''; // get bucket from request

        return getObject(bucket, key)
          .then((response) => {
            reply.statusCode(response.statusCode);

            response.headers.forEach((header) => {
              reply.header(header, response.headers[header]);
            });

            return reply(response.readStream);
          })
          .catch((err) => {
            // handle err
            reply.statusCode(500);
            return reply('error');
          });
    }
},

getObject.js

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const S3 = new AWS.S3();

module.exports = function getObject(bucket, key) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    // Get the file from the bucket
    S3.getObject({
      Bucket: bucket,
      Key: key
    })
      .on('error', (err) => {            
        return reject(err);
      })
      .on('httpHeaders', (statusCode, headers, response) => {
        // If the Key was found inside Bucket, prepare a response object
        if (statusCode === 200) {
          let responseObject = {
            statusCode: statusCode,
            headers: {
              'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename=' + key
            }
          };

          if (headers['content-type'])
            responseObject.headers['Content-Type'] = headers['content-type'];
          if (headers['content-length'])
            responseObject.headers['Content-Length'] = headers['content-length'];

          responseObject.readStream = response.httpResponse.createUnbufferedStream();
          return resolve(responseObject);
        }
      })
      .send();
  });
}