get-file-contents.md

Get file contents

A query to get the contents of a file. Queries do not change the state of the file or require network consensus. The information is returned from a single node processing the query.

Query Signing Requirements

• The client operator private key is required to sign the query request

Query Fees

• Please see the transaction and query fees table for the base transaction fee
• Please use the Hedera fee estimator to estimate your query fee cost

Constructor	Description
new FileContentsQuery()	Initializes a FileContentsQuery object

new FileContentsQuery()

Methods

Method	Type	Description
setFileId(<fileId>)	FileId	The ID of the file to get contents for (x.z.y)

{% tabs %} {% tab title="Java" %}

//Create the query
FileContentsQuery query = new FileContentsQuery()
    .setFileId(newFileId);

//Sign with client operator private key and submit the query to a Hedera network
ByteString contents = query.execute(client);

//Change to Utf-8 encoding
String contentsToUtf8 = contents.toStringUtf8();

System.out.println(contentsToUtf8);

//v2.0.0

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="JavaScript" %}

//Create the query
const query = new FileContentsQuery()
    .setFileId(newFileId);

//Sign with client operator private key and submit the query to a Hedera network
const contents = await query.execute(client);

console.log(contents.toString());

//v2.0.7

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Go" %}

//Create the query
query := hedera.NewFileContentsQuery().
		SetFileID(newFileId)

//Sign with client operator private key and submit the query to a Hedera network
contents, err := query.Execute(client)

fmt.Println(string(contents))

//v2.0.0

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}

Get query values

Method	Type	Description
getFileId()	FileId	The ID of the file to get contents for (x.z.y)

{% tabs %} {% tab title="Java" %}

//Create the query
FileContentsQuery query = new FileContentsQuery()
    .setFileId(newFileId);

//Get file ID
FileId getFileId = query.getFileId();

//v2.0.0

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="JavaScript" %}

//Create the query
const query = new FileContentsQuery()
    .setFileId(newFileId);

//Get file ID
const getFileId = query.getFileId();

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Go" %}

//Create the query
query := hedera.NewFileContentsQuery().
		SetFileID(newFileId)
		
//Get file ID
getFileId := query.GetFileID()

//v2.0.0

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}