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# downloadFiles

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          <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> gpudb::GPUdb::downloadFiles </td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesRequest">DownloadFilesRequest</a> &</td>
          <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">request\_</span></span></td>
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      <p>Downloads one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesRequest">Request</a> object containing the parameters for the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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          <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> & gpudb::GPUdb::downloadFiles </td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesRequest">DownloadFilesRequest</a> &</td>
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          <td className="paramtype"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> &</td>
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      <p>Downloads one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">request\_</td>
              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesRequest">Request</a> object containing the parameters for the operation. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[out]</td>
              <td className="paramname">response\_</td>
              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the results of the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation (initially passed in by reference). </div>
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          <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> gpudb::GPUdb::downloadFiles </td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const std::vector\< std::string > &</td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const std::vector\< int64\_t > &</td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const std::vector\< int64\_t > &</td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const std::map\< std::string, std::string > &</td>
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      <p>Downloads one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">fileNames</td>
              <td>An array of the file names to download from KiFS. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">readOffsets</td>
              <td>An array of starting byte offsets from which to read each respective file in <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em arg">readLengths</span> must also not be empty. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">readLengths</td>
              <td>Array of number of bytes to read from each respective file in <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em arg">readOffsets</span> must also not be empty. </td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae926208617f119486e700f567d3fb92e">download\_files\_file\_encoding</a>: Encoding to be applied to the output file data. When using JSON serialization it is recommended to specify this as <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a088ee2c65e387365185601d1d760c80d">base64</a>. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a088ee2c65e387365185601d1d760c80d">download\_files\_base64</a>: Apply base64 encoding to the output file data. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aab04be20c44c701deb41c5c7829c6611">download\_files\_none</a>: Do not apply any encoding to the output file data. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aab04be20c44c701deb41c5c7829c6611">download\_files\_none</a>.
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                The default value is an empty map.
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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          <td className="paramtype"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> &</td>
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      <p>Downloads one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
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              <td>An array of the file names to download from KiFS. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">readOffsets</td>
              <td>An array of starting byte offsets from which to read each respective file in <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em arg">readLengths</span> must also not be empty. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
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              <td>Array of number of bytes to read from each respective file in <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em arg">fileNames</span>. If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em arg">readOffsets</span> must also not be empty. </td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae926208617f119486e700f567d3fb92e">download\_files\_file\_encoding</a>: Encoding to be applied to the output file data. When using JSON serialization it is recommended to specify this as <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a088ee2c65e387365185601d1d760c80d">base64</a>. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a088ee2c65e387365185601d1d760c80d">download\_files\_base64</a>: Apply base64 encoding to the output file data. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aab04be20c44c701deb41c5c7829c6611">download\_files\_none</a>: Do not apply any encoding to the output file data. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aab04be20c44c701deb41c5c7829c6611">download\_files\_none</a>.
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                The default value is an empty map.
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              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the results of the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation (initially passed in by reference). </div>
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