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  • December 15, 2016
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redgeographics
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I would like to argue for more consistency in the log messages that readers generate. Specifically the message about which source file is being read.

For example the Shape reader says: Opened Shape File 'C:FMEData2016DataElevationModelContoursJ11.shp' for input

The MITAB reader says: Opened native MapInfo file `C:FMEData2016DataParks\\Parks.tab'

The PostGIS reader says: Reading POSTGIS table: 'public.steden'...

The ACAD reader says: Successfully opened the 'Release2013' AutoCAD file 'C:/FMEData2016/Data/Transportation/Roads.dwg'

Note that the wording is slightly different but at least these readers all report which file they're reading. The GML reader doesn't though... it shows quite a lot of information about how it's reading the file, except the filename. So when I was doing a bulk load of a large dataset, 90+ GML files of 300+ Mb each into 15 PostGIS tables, which failed about halfway through I had no easy way of finding out which files had processed properly and thus could be skipped in the next load.

I ran into this issue when using the GML reader (FME 2016.1.2.1), but with 360+ readers there might be more that have this shortcoming.

FME rocks! \m/
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fmelizard
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  • December 15, 2016

Consistency is a great goal and we'll keep this in mind. I've also asked the XML team to check if there formats could echo the actual file better. Longer run as/if we move to "FeatureReader", we plan a Summary port that will shoot out a variety of statistics and metadata about what was just read, and that may prove to be the best long term solution.

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