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Error when trying to import a zip file.

nlazouzi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:18:52 GMT

Good Morning Everyone,OK, i have alfresco installed on an Ubuntu 9.04 machine. Everything went well during install. I can log in to both the alfresco and share sitesNOTE: i changed the default port to 80 instead of 8080 and changed the web_…..xml form to update the endpoint urls properly.(this is to

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

nlazouzi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:38:30 GMT

OK, here is the deal.
I had a rule on that space that converted all incoming items to PDFs then moved them a to another space.
The zip that I imported had another zip file inside of it. Because the import functionality extracts all the files within the given zip, when the zip file inside was extracted, the system tried to convert it to a PDF thus causing the error.
Alfresco 3.2r seems to me like it's not very stable.

Alfresco folks….. Are you aware of this ???

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

mrogers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:22:47 GMT

Aware of what? If you think you have found "issues" then please check whether they are already known and if not raise them in JIRA. (issues.alfresco.com). Please be clear what the issue is. And only have one issue per JIRA ticket.

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

nlazouzi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:45:52 GMT

OK, here is the deal.
I had a rule on that space that converted all incoming items to PDFs then moved them a to another space.
The zip that I imported had another zip file inside of it. Because the import functionality extracts all the files within the given zip, when the zip file inside was extracted, the system tried to convert it to a PDF thus causing the error.
Alfresco 3.2r seems to me like it's not very stable.

Alfresco folks….. Are you aware of this ???

When a zip file containing another zip file is being extracted in a space where a conversion rule (to PDf ) exists, the following error is raised.

A system error happened during the operation: 11130004 Transformer for 'application/zip' source mime type and 'application/pdf' target mime type was not found. Operation can't be performed

This is the issue i am referring to.

Thanks
Nabil

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

mrogers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:20:36 GMT

You can't convert from a zip to a PDF, that's what the error message is telling you.

From your application perspective what you may need to do is first have a rule to unzip your archive file and then convert the contents of the archive to PDF. You need to avoid the nonsense of trying to convert zip files to pdf.

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

nlazouzi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:30:02 GMT

I am well aware of the fact that you can't convert a .zip to PDF. it's non sense indeed.
However, what i am telling you is, alfresco doesn't handle this properly.
In my case i used the import functionality which, given a zip file, it extracts it's contents automatically.
I did this in a space which had a conversion rule applied to it.
because the zip file that i used had another zip file within it, the conversion completely failed on all other files.
I would expect alfresco to not attempt to convert a zip but continue with the operation and convert the rest of the files while of course bringing my attention to the fact that it skipped the zip file.

So, bottom line, Alfresco doesn't deal with unsupported files correctly.

are we on the same page now ??

Re: Error when trying to import a zip file.

mrogers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:16:24 GMT

Now there's enough detail for you to raise this in JIRA.