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Add ability to read features from Archived Dataset within Nested Zip File

  • November 27, 2015
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takashi
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Sometimes I come across a source dataset within nested zip file, like this: "root.zip/sub.zip/data.shp".

Looks like FME doesn't support reading features from such a dataset currently. It would be convenient if FME could unzip nested zip files recursively and read features from the archived dataset.

Why not inspect features with Visual/Data Preview and Feature/Record Information before writing them into a destination dataset?
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davideagle
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  • January 29, 2016

You solved the problem @takashi with your ZipExtractor custom transformer (excellent work) but it would be nice to see readers able to recursively look inside nested zips for data.

davideagle
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  • July 26, 2021

I stumbled across the same requirement today and when looking how to get FME to read *.zip\\*.zip\\*.gz\\*.gml it seems FME still needs an unpacking tool like Takashi's ZipExtractor, albeit with the benefit of now being able to use it with the TempPathnameCreator. Would be great to get to data inside multiple zipped levels! Anyway, thanks again takashi from 2021! No doubt I'll be back on this post in 2027...

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