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Decompress and transfer files

Decompress and transfer the uploaded files from the home directory of the remote server to the target location.

POST Request

To decompress and transfer files, include the connection ID in the following URI.

mftsaas/api/v1/filetransferTask/execute/1004

Include the following information in the request:

Field	Type	Required	Description
agentGroupId	String	Yes	The ID of the agent group.
portalUser	String	-	Whether the user is a portal user. Default is false.
relativeSourceLocation	String	-	The relative source location within the remote server home directory.
pattern	String	Yes	The file pattern of the file to release to the specified target location after decompressing the file. The regular expression pattern is supported.
targetLocation	String	Yes	The target directory to which the file is moved after decompressing.
relativeTargetLocation	String	-	The relative target location within the remote server home directory.
connectionId	String	Yes	The connection ID of the Advanced FTP, Advanced FTPS, or Advanced SFTP V2 connector.
afterFilePickupAction	String	-	Determines what to do with the source files after the files are transferred. Select one of the following filter options: KEEP. Keep the files in the source directory. DELETE. Delete the files from the source directory. RENAME. Rename the files in the source directory. ARCHIVE. Archive the files to a different location. You must specify an archive directory Default is KEEP.
renameSuffix	String	Yes	If afterFilePickupAction is selected as RENAME, the file name suffix to append to the files in the source directory. You can use the following suffix types: $date $time $runId $timestamp
archiveDirectoryPath	String	Yes	If afterFilePickupAction is selected as ARCHIVE, the archive directory in which to archive the files.
skipDuplicateFiles	String	-	Indicates whether to skip the source files which are already present in the docstore location. Default is false.
processFilesRecursively	String	-	Indicates whether to process files from all sub-folders within the base directory. Default is false.
DECOMPRESSION_TYPE	String	Yes	The format of the files that you want to decompress. Select one of the following decompression methods: Zip Tar Gzip The values are not case sensitive.
PATTERN _TO_COLLECT	String	Yes	The pattern of the file that you want to collect to decompress from the file server user’s home directory. Use a regular expression to match the file name pattern.

For example, to decompress and transfer a file, you might use the following request:

POST <serverUrl>/mftsaas/api/v1/filetransferTask/execute/1004
Accept:application/json
IDS-SESSION-ID: <icSessionId or INFA-SESSION-ID>
{
    "agentGroupId": "01000125000000000002",
    "portalUser": "false",
    "pattern": "arun_zip.txt",
    "relativeSourceLocation": "/",
    "targetLocation": "C:\\Informatica_Target",
    "relativeTargetLocation": "",
    "connectionId": "0100010B000000000002",
    "afterFilePickupAction": "RENAME",
    "renameSuffix":"_RENAME_",
    "archiveDirectoryPath" :"",
    "skipDuplicateFiles": true,
    "processFilesRecursively": false,
   "taskVariables": {
       "DECOMPRESSION_TYPE": "gunzip",
        "PATTERN_TO_COLLECT": ".*gz"
    }
}

POST Response

If successful,

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returns the run ID for the job. Use the run ID to monitor the job status.

The following example shows a successful response:

{
       "projectId": 0,
    "timeTaken": 0,
    "queuePriority": 0,
    "runPriority": 0,
    "runMode": "UNKNOWN",
    "submitSourceId": -1,
    "runModeInteractive": false,
    "runModeBatch": false,
    "runModeDebug": false,
    "runModeUnknown": true,
    "formattedTimeTaken": "0.00",
    "id": 1000000007171,
    "runId": 30
}

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