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Gzip Compress activity

Introduction

A Gzip Compress activity, using its Gzip connection, compresses content into a Base64-encoded string of Gzip-compressed data and is intended to be used as a target to consume data in an operation.

Create a Gzip Compress activity

An instance of a Gzip Compress activity is created from a Gzip connection using its Compress activity type.

To create an instance of an activity, drag the activity type to the design canvas or copy the activity type and paste it on the design canvas. For details, see Creating an activity instance in Component reuse.

An existing Gzip Compress activity can be edited from these locations:

Configure a Gzip Compress activity

Follow these steps to configure a Gzip Compress activity:

Step 1: Enter a name and specify optional settings

In this step, provide a name for the activity and specify the optional setting. Each user interface element of this step is described below.

Gzip Compress Activity Configuration Step 1

  • Name: Enter a name to identify the activity. The name must be unique for each Gzip Compress activity and must not contain forward slashes / or colons :.

  • Optional settings: Click to expand this optional setting:

    • Compress tar.gz: Select to compress data into a .tar.gz file (an archive file format that uses a combination of TAR (tape archive) and GZIP). When unselected, data is compressed into a .gz file.

  • Save & Exit: If enabled, click to save the configuration for this step and close the activity configuration.

  • Next: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and continue to the next step. The configuration will not be saved until you click the Finished button on the last step.

  • Discard Changes: After making changes, click to close the configuration without saving changes made to any step. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

Step 2: Review the data schemas

Any request or response schemas are displayed. Each user interface element of this step is described below.

Gzip Compress Activity Configuration Step 2

  • Data schemas: These data schemas are inherited by adjacent transformations and are displayed again during transformation mapping.

    The request and response data schemas consist of these nodes and fields:

    Request node / field Description
    requests Node containing a compression request
    content Field containing a string of uncompressed data
    Response node / field Description
    response Node containing the response
    CompressedData Field containing a Base64-encoded string of Gzip-compressed data

  • Refresh: Click the refresh icon or the word Refresh to regenerate schemas from the Gzip endpoint. This action also regenerates a schema in other locations throughout the project where the same schema is referenced, such as in an adjacent transformation.

  • Back: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and return to the previous step.

  • Finished: Click to save the configuration for all steps and close the activity configuration.

Next steps

After configuring a Gzip Compress activity, complete the configuration of the operation by adding and configuring other activities, transformations, or scripts as operation steps. You can also configure the operation settings, which include the ability to chain operations together that are in the same or different workflows.

Menu actions for an activity are accessible from the project pane and the design canvas. For details, see Activity actions menu in Connector basics.

Gzip Compress activities can be used as a target with these operation patterns:

To use the activity with scripting functions, write the data to a temporary location and then use that temporary location in the scripting function.

When ready, deploy and run the operation and validate behavior by checking the operation logs.