Zip Activities

The Zip activity implements a PKZip-compatible Zip compressor and decompressor.

Remarks

The activity uses the Deflate algorithm specified in RFC 1951 for compression, and produces and reads output compatible with PKZip, WinZip, etc.

Zip Assembler Activity

The Assembler takes a group of files as input which contains raw data, and generates a Zip archive file as output.

Compression strength is regulated by the CompressionLevel property. You may also control encryption behavior by setting the Password and EncryptionAlgorithm properties on this activity.

Zip Disassembler Activity

The Disassembler takes a zipped file as input, and generates a group of unzipped files as output.

The Password property must be set in order to extract files which have been encrypted. You may also use the ExcludedFiles property to regulate which files are to be extracted from the archive.

Please refer to the section on adapter configuration for a description of how to configure receive locations and send ports for this adapter.

Assembler Property List

The following is the full list of the properties of the assembler activity with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.


Append	Append files to the specified archive.
ArchiveFile	The name of the zip archive.
CompressionLevel	The compression level to use.
EncryptionAlgorithm	The algorithm used to encrypt a WF collection when written to the archive.
ExcludedFiles	A list of files to exclude.
IncludedFiles	Specifies which files the activity should include when compressing.
LogFile	The file to write logging information to at runtime.
LogMode	What information gets logged during activity execution.
Other	Defines a set of configuration settings to be used by the activity.
Password	A password for the zip file.
RecurseSubdirectories	Whether or not to recurse into subdirectories.
RuntimeLicense	Specifies the activity runtime license key.
ZipComment	The comment for the entire zip file.

Disassembler Property List

The following is the full list of the properties of the disassembler activity with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.


ArchiveFile	The name of the zip archive.
ExcludedFiles	A list of files to exclude.
ExtractToPath	A base path to decompress to.
FileList	Collection of entries resulting in the last file listing.
FileMask	Specifies which files the activity should include when extracting.
LogFile	The file to write logging information to at runtime.
LogMode	What information gets logged during activity execution.
Operation	The operation which will be executed by the ZIP task.
Other	Defines a set of configuration settings to be used by the activity.
OverwriteFiles	Whether or not to overwrite files.
Password	A password for the zip file.
RecurseSubdirectories	Whether or not to recurse into subdirectories.
RuntimeLicense	Specifies the activity runtime license key.

Configuration Settings

The following is a list of configuration settings for the activity with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.


CompressionMethod	Used to set the method of compression.
PlainPassword	Allows you to specify a password stored in plaintext.