Overview

You can use this Snap to read binary data passed as binary objects from its input view and create a .zip file at a specified file destination.

The archive format is automatically detected by examining the file header. The supported formats are PKZIP and 7-Zip.

Snap Type

The ZipFile Write Snap is a Write-type Snap that writes files from archive files.

Prerequisites

IAM Roles for Amazon EC2

The 'IAM_CREDENTIAL_FOR_S3' feature is used to access S3 files from EC2 Groundplex, without Access-key ID and Secret key in the AWS S3 account in the Snap. The IAM credential stored in the EC2 metadata is used to gain access rights to the S3 buckets. To enable this feature, the following line should be added to global.properties, and the jcc (node) restarted: jcc.jvm_options = -DIAM_CREDENTIAL_FOR_S3=TRUE

Please note this feature is supported in the EC2-type Groundplex only.

For more information on IAM Roles, see IAM roles for Amazon EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Support for Ultra Pipelines

Does not support Ultra Pipelines.

Limitations

This Snap does not create an output file when using the input from SAS Generator Snap configured with only the DELETE SAS permission. This is not the case when the target file exists.

Known Issues

Snap Views

Type	Format	Number of Views	Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps	Description

Type

Format

Number of Views

Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps

Description

Input

Document

Min: 1
Max: ∞

Downstream Snap is optional. Any Snap with a document input view can be connected downstream.

The Snap does not require input data. Input documents may be used to evaluate any JavaScript expression in the File property. It may contain value(s) to evaluate the JavaScript expression in the File property.

Output

Binary

Min: 0
Max: 1

File Writer
Binary Router
JSON Parser

Binary data read from the source specified in the File property with header information about the binary stream.

Each file extracted from the provided zip file is written as binary object to this output view. The header of the binary object has details about the file extracted like content-location, content-type, content-length, last-modified, and zip-filename.

Error

Error handling is a generic way to handle errors without losing data or failing the Snap execution. You can handle the errors that the Snap might encounter while running the Pipeline by choosing one of the following options from the When errors occur list under the Views tab. The available options are:

Stop Pipeline Execution: Stops the current pipeline execution when the Snap encounters an error.
Discard Error Data and Continue: Ignores the error, discards that record, and continues with the rest of the records.
Route Error Data to Error View: Routes the error data to an error view without stopping the Snap execution.

Learn more about Error handling in Pipelines.

Account

This Snap uses account references created on the Accounts page of SnapLogic Manager to handle access to this endpoint. This Snap supports a Basic auth account, an AWS S3 auth account, SSH Auth account, SMB account, or no account. See Configuring Binary Accounts for information on setting up accounts that work with this Snap.

Account types supported by each protocol are as follows:

Protocol	Account types

Protocol	Account types
sldb	no account
s3	AWS S3
ftp	Basic Auth
sftp	Basic Auth, SSH Auth
ftps	Basic Auth
hdfs	no account
http	no account
https	no account
smb	SMB
wasb	Azure Storage
wasbs	Azure Storage
gs	Google Storage

Required settings for account types are as follows:

Account Type	Settings

Account Type	Settings
Basic Auth	Username, Password
AWS S3	Access-key ID, Secret key
SSH Auth	Username, Private key, Key Passphrase
SMB	Domain, Username, Password
Azure Storage	Account name, Primary access key
Google Storage	Approval prompt, Application scope, Auto-refresh token (Read-only properties are Access token, Refresh token, Access token expiration, OAuth2 Endpoint, OAuth2 token and Access type.)

Snap Settings

Asterisk ( * ): Indicates a mandatory field.
Suggestion icon (): Indicates a list that is dynamically populated based on the configuration.
Expression icon (): Indicates whether the value is an expression (if enabled) or a static value (if disabled). Learn more about Using Expressions in SnapLogic.
Add icon (): Indicates that you can add fields in the field set.
Remove icon (): Indicates that you can remove fields from the field set.

Field Name		Field Type	Description
Label* Default Value: ZipFile Write Example: ZipFile Write		String	Specify a unique name for the Snap.
File name* Default Value: N/A Example: contact.zip		String/Expression	Specifies the URL of the file where the output binary data is written. The supported file protocols are: sldb: http: sftp: ftp: ftps: s3: hdfs: webdhfs: smb: wasb: wasbs: gs: This Snap supports S3 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint. For example, s3://my-bucket@bucket.vpce-028b7814794578709-vu0vvauy.s3.us-west-2.vpce.amazonaws.com This property works similar to the File name property of the File Writer Snap. For additional information refer the Settings section of the File Writer Snap. When using expressions to build a file name, ensure that the resulting file name does not contain characters that are not supported by the target platform. For example, a file name that contains the special character ":" is not supported in SMB. Ensure the file name does not contain '?' character because it is not supported. The Snap fails with an error if you include the '?' character. When the Snap zips multiple binary data and when the File name property is an expression (such as $Filename), all file name values in the headers of the binary data should be the same. Otherwise, the Snap will throw an exception.
File action* Default value: Overwrite Example: Ignore		String/Expression	The action to perform if the file already exists. The options available include: Overwrite: If Overwrite is selected, the Snap attempts to write the file without checking for the file's existence for better performance and the "fileAction" field will be "overwritten" in the output view data. Ignore: The Snap does not overwrite the existing file and will do nothing but write the status and file name to its output view. Error: If Error is selected, the error displays in the Pipeline Run Log. If an error view is defined, the error will be written there as well.
Base directory Default Value: N/A Example: testFolder		String	The root directory for all the files added to .zip file.
Use input view label Default Value: Deselected		Checkbox	If true, the input view label is used for all names of the files added to the zip file. Otherwise, the input view ID is used instead, when input binary stream does not have its content-location in its header. When this option is selected, if there are more than one binary input streams in an input view, for the second input stream and after, the file names will be the input view label appended with '_n'. If the label is in the format of 'name.ext', '_n' will be append to the 'name', e.g. name_2.ext for the second input stream.
Number of retries Default Value: 0 Example: 3		Integer/Expression	Specifies the maximum number of retry attempts when the Snap fails to write. If the value is larger than 0, the Snap first stores the input data in a temporary zip file before writing to the target file. Minimum value: 0
Retry interval (seconds) Default Value: 1 Example: 3		Integer/Expression	Specifies the minimum number of seconds for which the Snap must wait before attempting recovery from a network failure. Minimum value: 1
AWS Canned ACL Default Value: 1 Example: PublicRead			The predefined ACL grants (from AWS) to use when writing a file to S3. Choose a Canned ACL from the available options: None Private PublicRead PublicReadWrite AuthenticatedRead LogDeliveryWrite BucketOwnerRead BucketOwnerFullControl AwsExecRead Watch the video for more information about AWS Canned ACL. Learn more about AWS Canned ACLs.
Advanced properties	Use this field set to define additional properties for the Snap.
	SAS URI	Dropdown	The URI of the Shared Access Storage (SAS) to be accessed. Supported SAS types are: Service SAS on container Service SAS on blob Account SAS
	Values	String/Expression	Provide a value for the SAS URI.
Default Value: Execute only Example: Validate & Execute		Dropdown list	Select one of the following three modes in which the Snap executes: Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap, and generates a data preview during Pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during Pipeline runtime. Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during Pipeline execution without generating preview data. Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.