Returns the contents of the blob as a String.
| Usage | Returns | Blob.string(encoding) | String |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: blob | Blob | |
encoding | String, default: null | The character set encoding to use when decoding the blob.
Options include, but are not limited to, 'US-ASCII', 'UTF-8', and 'UTF-16'. |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
// Parse a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) entry from Google Cloud
// Storage (GCS). This is a non-traditional use of ee.Blob.
var url = 'gs://ee-docs-demos/vector/geojson/point.json';
var blob = ee.Blob(url);
var entry = ee.Dictionary(blob.string().decodeJSON());
print(entry); // Point (1.00, 2.00)...
print(entry.get('a_field')); // "a demo field"
Python setup
See the
Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using
geemap for interactive development.
import ee
import geemap.core as geemap
Colab (Python)
# Parse a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) entry from Google Cloud
# Storage (GCS). This is a non-traditional use of ee.Blob.
url = 'gs://ee-docs-demos/vector/geojson/point.json'
blob = ee.Blob(url)
entry = ee.Dictionary(blob.string().decodeJSON())
print(entry.getInfo()) # Point (1.00, 2.00)...
print(entry.get('a_field').getInfo()) # "a demo field"