I have a KML writer with dynamic attribute definition. The writer always writes a KMZ file but I want it to write a KML file. When you use a static writer you can specify the filename and extension in the writer as either ".kml" or ".kmz" but when it is dynamic you just give the path to the folder and "fme_feature_type" as the feature type name. Also there is no suffix on which to fan out.
How can I get the writer to write KML?
Thanks
Best answer by takashi
Hi @jimo, I think you can control the destination format (KML or KMZ) via file extension (.kml or .kmz) in the string expression for the Fanout Dataset option in the KML writer. e.g. assume that a feature attribute called "_basename" stores the destination filename without extension,
+16Hi @jimo,
I have just created a dynamic translation to KML and I can still change the extension kml to kmz and it works just fine. Try it yourself and change the D: esult2.kmz to D: esult2.kml
Hi @jimo,
I have just created a dynamic translation to KML and I can still change the extension kml to kmz and it works just fine. Try it yourself and change the D: esult2.kmz to D: esult2.kml
At any rate, I realized that I can use the zipfile module in the Python shutdown script to extract the doc.kml from the KMZ file, like this:
import zipfile
zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(pathToSourceKML, 'r')
# Where I want to write the KML
zip_ref.extractall(pathToUnzippedKML)
zip_ref.close()
Then I can use shutil.move(src,dst) to change the file name from doc.kml to the name that I want it to be.
+19Hi @jimo, I think you can control the destination format (KML or KMZ) via file extension (.kml or .kmz) in the string expression for the Fanout Dataset option in the KML writer. e.g. assume that a feature attribute called "_basename" stores the destination filename without extension,
+19Hi @jimo, I think you can control the destination format (KML or KMZ) via file extension (.kml or .kmz) in the string expression for the Fanout Dataset option in the KML writer. e.g. assume that a feature attribute called "_basename" stores the destination filename without extension,
$(BASENAME).kml Hi @jimo, I think you can control the destination format (KML or KMZ) via file extension (.kml or .kmz) in the string expression for the Fanout Dataset option in the KML writer. e.g. assume that a feature attribute called "_basename" stores the destination filename without extension,
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