[Feature Request] Add downloadTo to Storage Client

[frankyn]

Feature Request

The Java Cloud Storage client google-cloud-storage has a sample to download a Blob (shown below). The feature request is to add this functionality into the sample shown into an additional method downloadTo for Class Blob to reduce complexity of downloading a blob using the Java Storage client. At the moment other clients use this approach and allow a user to download a given Blob to a specified file.

Language Comparison:

In other client libraries (google-cloud-ruby) there exists a method to download a Blob to a specified file.

Another example using .NET:

Example of usage

try {
  String bucketName = ”BUCKET_NAME”;
  String blobName = ”BLOB_NAME”;
 
  Blob blob = BlobId.of(bucketName, blobName);
  Path path = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("output.ext”);
 
  blob.downloadTo(path);
} catch (IOException io) {
   //...
}

[frankyn]

@garrettjonesgoogle is this being prioritized this quarter?

[garrettjonesgoogle]

@frankyn i'm not sure if you are asking whether we will decide on the prioritization this quarter (maybe) or whether we are scheduling it for this quarter (not yet).

[frankyn]

I mean, is it scheduled for this quarter. This issue will help the developer experience when using the Java Client library to download a blob. Thanks @garrettjonesgoogle