Text ZIP Reducer

Overview

Text ZIP Reducer is a reducer that produces a JSON containing the Base64 encoding and the path of a ZIP file that contains text files taken from the output of the blocks of the reference context.
In other words, a Text ZIP Reducer block, put after a context, creates text files out of context output and puts those files in a ZIP archive.

Input

A Text ZIP Reducer block has the following input variables:

• text (string, optional): the plain text of the file to add to the output ZIP.
• json (object, optional): JSON whose string representation becomes the text of the file to add to the output ZIP file.
• path (string, required) Name or path of the file to add to the output ZIP.

One between text and json is required and excludes the other, so if text has a value json must not a value and vice versa.

Block properties

The properties of a Text ZIP reducer block are accessed by editing the block and are divided into these groups:

• Basic properties:

  • Block name
  • Component version (read only)
  • Block ID (read only)

• Functional:

  • Context to reduce: reference context. It is chosen from a drop-down. To remove the choice, select Clear .
  • ZIP File name: the name of the ZIP file to generate.

• Deployment:

  • Timeout: execution timeout expressed in minutes (m) or seconds (s).
  • Replicas: number of required instances.
  • Consumer Number: number of threads of the consumer, the software module of the block that provides input to process by taking it from the block's work queue.
  • Memory: required memory.
  • CPU: thousandths of a CPU required (for example: 1000 = 1 CPU).

• Input: these properties correspond to the input variables and must be set to the output keys of blocks of the reference context.

• Output: read-only, a memorandum of the contents of the output JSON object, that is:

  • The Base64 encoding of the ZIP file.
  • The name of the ZIP file.