tGSGet Standard properties

Use an existing connection

Select this check box and in the Component List click the relevant connection component to reuse the connection details you already defined.

• Service account: authenticate using a Google account that is associated with your Google Cloud Platform project. When selecting this mode, the parameter to be defined is Service account key.
• Application Default Credentials: authenticate using the Application Default Credentials. When selecting this mode, no additional parameters need to be defined as credentials are automatically found based on the application environment.
• OAuth Access Token: authenticate using an OAuth access token. When selecting this mode, the parameter to be defined is OAuth Access Token.

To know more about the Google Cloud authentication process, read the Google Cloud documentation.

Click the [...] button next to the service account key field to browse for the JSON file that contains your service account key.

This property is only available when you authenticate using Service account.

The lifetime of the token is one hour. The component does not perform the token refresh operation but will fetch the new access token to operate beyond the one-hour limit.

Key prefix

Specify the prefix to download only objects which keys begin with the specified prefix.

Specify the delimiter in order to download only those objects with key names up to the delimiter.

Specify project ID

When the credential type is set to OAuth Access Token, select this check box and in the Project ID field enter the project ID from which you want to obtain objects.

Use keys

Select this check box and complete the Keys table to define the criteria for objects to be downloaded from Google Cloud Storage.

• Bucket name: type in the name of the bucket from which you want to download objects.

• Key: type in the key of the object to be downloaded.

• New name: type in a new name for the object to be downloaded.

If you select the Use keys check box, the Key prefix and Delimiter fields as well as the Specify project ID check box and the Get files from bucket list check box will not be available.

Get files from bucket list

Select this check box and complete the Bucket table to define the criteria for objects to be downloaded from Google Cloud Storage.

• Bucket name: type in the name of the bucket from which you want to download objects.

• Key prefix: type in the prefix to download objects whose keys start with the specified prefix from the specified bucket.

• Delimiter: specify the delimiter to download those objects with key names up to the delimiter from the specified bucket.

If you select the Get files from bucket list check box, the Key prefix and Delimiter fields as well as the Specify project ID check box and the Use keys check box will not be available.

Output directory

Specify the directory where you want to store the downloaded objects.

Die on error

This check box is cleared by default, meaning to skip the row on error and to complete the process for error-free rows.

When selected, enter the URL in the Google Storage Private API URL property, by respecting the following format: "https://storage.goggleapis.com".

For more information, see Access Google APIs through endpoints from Google documentation.

This property is only available when you authenticate using Service account and Application Default Credentials.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

Global Variables

NB_LINE: the number of rows read by an input component or transferred to an output component. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This variable functions only if the Die on error check box is cleared, if the component has this check box.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl+Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For more information about variables, see Using contexts and variables.

Usage rule

This component is usually used together with other Google Cloud Storage components, particularly tGSPut.