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# downloadFiles

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.downloadFiles </td>
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                <td className="paramtype"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_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>Request object containing the parameters for the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd">Response object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L32489">32489</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.downloadFiles </td>
                <td>(</td>
                <td className="paramtype">IList\< string ></td>
                <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">file\_names</span></span>, </td>
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                <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">options</span></span><span className="paramdefsep"> = </span><span className="paramdefval">null</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 className="paramname">file\_names</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="paramname">read\_offsets</td>
              <td>An array of starting byte offsets from which to read each respective file in <span className="em">file\_names</span> . Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em">file\_names</span> . If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em">read\_lengths</span> must also not be empty.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">read\_lengths</td>
              <td>Array of number of bytes to read from each respective file in <span className="em">file\_names</span> . Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em">file\_names</span> . If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em">read\_offsets</span> must also not be empty.</td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a490b4c589a0ae3ec3b05486bc8126ae2">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#ada9422bad27fab0b4f14a5b365a403cd">BASE64</a>. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#ada9422bad27fab0b4f14a5b365a403cd">BASE64</a>: Apply base64 encoding to the output file data. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a92d3783d748d8fcd84856d1371aa4964">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a92d3783d748d8fcd84856d1371aa4964">NONE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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        <div className="dd">Response object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L32567">32567</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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                <td className="memname">async System.Threading.Tasks.Task\< <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesResponse">DownloadFilesResponse</a> > kinetica.Kinetica.DownloadFilesAsync </td>
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                <td className="paramtype"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest">DownloadFilesRequest</a></td>
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                <td className="paramtype">System.Threading.CancellationToken</td>
                <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">cancellationToken</span></span><span className="paramdefsep"> = </span><span className="paramdefval">default</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>Request object containing the parameters for the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd">Task that returns the response object containing the result of the operation.</div>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L32505">32505</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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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="paramname">file\_names</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>Array of number of bytes to read from each respective file in <span className="em">file\_names</span> . Must either be empty or the same length as <span className="em">file\_names</span> . If empty, files are downloaded in their entirety. If not empty, <span className="em">read\_offsets</span> must also not be empty.</td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a490b4c589a0ae3ec3b05486bc8126ae2">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#ada9422bad27fab0b4f14a5b365a403cd">BASE64</a>. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#ada9422bad27fab0b4f14a5b365a403cd">BASE64</a>: Apply base64 encoding to the output file data. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a92d3783d748d8fcd84856d1371aa4964">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DownloadFilesRequest_1_1Options#a92d3783d748d8fcd84856d1371aa4964">NONE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L32632">32632</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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