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I have an FME Desktop Workbench 2019, with a Reader transformer that reads a webstie zip file and its shapefile.

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When I run this manually on Desktop it works fine and it can obtain the shapefile and read it.

 

I need to automate this to run daily. When I publish this workbench to FME Server and run it there, I get the following error:

 

49 ESRISHAPE Reader: Dataset `C:\\Users\\FME-SVC\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\fmeengines\\CAL-FME-GIS_Engine1\\FME_TempFileStore_1611253240189_1116820\\PLA_RTF_SHP.zip' lacks the required extension `shp'

 

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What transformer can I use instead of the reader so it can work in FME Server? Or should I download the zip file with HTTPCaller, store it in the server and then attempt to read it from the server? But I need to read the shapefile in the zip file.

 

Is there a process or method anyone is familiar with to automate this in FME Server?

 

Thank you.

you need to specify the url like so: 

https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip_**/*.shp]

It definitely confused me especially as it works without the asterisk on desktop.

Check out @mark2atsafe​ post here

https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hczoSAA/question-of-the-week-reading-and-writing-nested-zipped-shapefiles

you need to specify the url like so: 

https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip_**/*.shp]

It definitely confused me especially as it works without the asterisk on desktop.

Check out @mark2atsafe​ post here

https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hczoSAA/question-of-the-week-reading-and-writing-nested-zipped-shapefiles

Unfortunately, it's still giving me error. Even when I run in on Desktop. 

"Shape Reader: Failed to open dataset 'https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip/**/*.shp]' which is neither an existing file nor directory"

 

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Hi @messagemauri​ 

I was able to run the workspace pointing to https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip using FME Desktop 2019.2 and FME Server 2019.2

see log attached

 

Can you check if you have Windows Long File Path enable?

It is possible when FME Server/Desktop is extracting the file which may be exceeding the character limit of 260. See the article Enable Long file path to resolve the issue.

Hi @messagemauri​ 

I was able to run the workspace pointing to https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip using FME Desktop 2019.2 and FME Server 2019.2

see log attached

 

Can you check if you have Windows Long File Path enable?

It is possible when FME Server/Desktop is extracting the file which may be exceeding the character limit of 260. See the article Enable Long file path to resolve the issue.

Thanks @hkingsbury​ and @rahulsharma​ . Much appreaciated. I 'm still getting the error.

 

So what I did is a workaround by introducing an httpcaller to download the zip file to store it in a folder in FME Server, and then added a FeatureReader to access the zip file in that folder in FME Server which then accesses the shapefile and reads it. Thanks again for your help.

 

solution

Thanks @hkingsbury​ and @rahulsharma​ . Much appreaciated. I 'm still getting the error.

 

So what I did is a workaround by introducing an httpcaller to download the zip file to store it in a folder in FME Server, and then added a FeatureReader to access the zip file in that folder in FME Server which then accesses the shapefile and reads it. Thanks again for your help.

 

solution

A good transformer to use in this case is a TempPathnameCreator. This will create a temporary file name that you can use in the HTTPCaller as a download location and subsequently as a read location for the FeatureReader.

 

The created location will then be deleted at the end of the process

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