https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/What-is-the-best-way-to-decompress-extract-different-types/m-p/191690#M153771 <P>Hi all, </P><P>thanks in advance!</P><P>My issue is regarding <STRONG>Apache Nifi</STRONG>: </P><P>Whats the best way to decompress/extract different types of incoming files?<BR /><BR />In my use case I am getting a lot of files which are differently compressed (e.g. <STRONG>tar.gz</STRONG>, <STRONG>.zip</STRONG>, <STRONG>.rar</STRONG>, <STRONG>.tar </STRONG>or non-compressed<STRONG> .txt/.json</STRONG>), but I need all of them decompressed:<BR /><BR />What I tried is to have every file running through every possible Compress/UnpackContent processor, but it is actually not working and probably not the best way performance-wise:<BR /><BR />GetFile -&gt; (...) -&gt; <STRONG>CompressContent </STRONG>(uncompressing gzip) -&gt; <STRONG>UnpackContent </STRONG>(extracting .tar) -&gt; <STRONG>UnpackContent </STRONG>(extracting .zip) -&gt; (...) -&gt; PutFile<BR /><BR />for example: a "*.json"-file should run through those processors and nothing should happen, a "tar.gz"-file should get uncompressed (changes his name to ".tar") and after that getting extracted in an UnpackProcessor, so I get an uncompressed file after all.<BR /><BR />I hope there is a good solution, thanks once again.<BR /><BR />best regards</P> Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:11:23 GMT onestoneh 2017-11-08T06:11:23Z