download

Download a file from a remote server (e.g. JSON file)

Specify the URL to download and get the content as a return value.
Automatically parses JSON into a Ruby data structure.
For more advanced networking code, use the Ruby functions instead: http://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.0.0/Net/HTTP.html.

download
Supported platforms ios, android, mac
Author @KrauseFx

1 Example

data = download(url: "https://host.com/api.json")

Parameters

Key Description Default
url The URL that should be downloaded

* = default value is dependent on the user's system


Lane Variables

Actions can communicate with each other using a shared hash lane_context, that can be accessed in other actions, plugins or your lanes: lane_context[SharedValues:XYZ]. The download action generates the following Lane Variables:

SharedValue Description
SharedValues::DOWNLOAD_CONTENT The content of the file we just downloaded

To get more information check the Lanes documentation.


Documentation

To show the documentation in your terminal, run

fastlane action download

CLI

It is recommended to add the above action into your Fastfile, however sometimes you might want to run one-offs. To do so, you can run the following command from your terminal

fastlane run download

To pass parameters, make use of the : symbol, for example

fastlane run download parameter1:"value1" parameter2:"value2"

It's important to note that the CLI supports primitive types like integers, floats, booleans, and strings. Arrays can be passed as a comma delimited string (e.g. param:"1,2,3"). Hashes are not currently supported.

It is recommended to add all fastlane actions you use to your Fastfile.


Source code

This action, just like the rest of fastlane, is fully open source, view the source code on GitHub


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