RELEASED - plugin JS Zip file generator

Jici · February 21, 2021, 5:29pm

Hi!
I did not tried, but maybe you can add foldername/filename.ext to the filename
So you may need to set something in your workflow when file is uploaded to have the full folder/file.ext so you can use this in the filename list.

oh.devteam · February 21, 2021, 5:51pm

Thanks! Will try and report back

Jici · February 21, 2021, 6:01pm

I confirm this work @oh.devteam
https://sandboxjc.bubbleapps.io/version-test/zip
editor: Sandboxjc | Bubble Editor

oh.devteam · February 21, 2021, 6:17pm

hey @Jici did test also and it’s perfectly working, thanks!

This rises a new question: it’s possible to create mixed expressions (static and dynamic) so that I can create dynamic filenames with complex expressions without the necessity to create/modify a custom field reserved for folder management?
For example: “dynamic expression for folder name/dynamic expression for file name”

I hope to have explained myself correctly

Jici · February 22, 2021, 1:15pm

@oh.devteam Not directly in the plugin. You need to provide two list. If you can do that using another option (maybe list shifter), it’s up to you. I think the DB option is an easy one but you might have a specific case that will request a different way

oh.devteam · February 22, 2021, 1:18pm

Thanks for the ideas! Yes, I’ll check it out with listshifter, this will probably solve the question.

Thanks so much again

moham.belghiti · April 26, 2021, 8:50am

Hello @Jici

When the list is large (in my case 300 items) the action block the browser for two or three minutes before even firing the progress bar. Is this something normal or am I doing something wrong ?
Maybe is the “Search for”

Thanks in advance

Jici · April 26, 2021, 11:18am

This is a client side script. So it’s possible with large number of item the browser get stuck while processing the first part of the WF to get all files (and probably also affected by do a search for). I suggest you to test by setting a on page load to load the list of term period data into a state. And trigger the WF Generate a zip using the state instead. I actually don’t have a very large number of file in my DB so it will be hard for me to test. So if you can test this, let me know if the WF block the browser or it’s just the do a search that do that

You can send me a PM and I can help you setting this.

I could consider adding a server side action instead but there’s actually already plugin that do it on server side.

moham.belghiti · April 26, 2021, 12:13pm

Thank @Jici for your quick reply.
By the way the plugin works like charm under 100 items

However even with a custom state list it still blocks the browser for larger lists. It would be super nice if we could have the backend option for large lists.

I couldn’t find the plugin that download in zip file serverside.

Thanks for your help

Jici · April 26, 2021, 12:28pm

Seem that the one that was working on server side is not available anymore.
I will work on adding a server side option this week.

Jici · April 27, 2021, 5:00pm

Reminder
Be sure that file you are requesting are not private and exist. If you get an error like:

The plugin JS Zip / action Generate Zip file a JSZip threw the following error: Error: Failed to execute 'send' on 'XMLHttpRequest': Failed to load 'https://...

Most of the time this is because you are requesting a deleted file in AWS (but not in your DB) or a private file

The next week I will release a new version with a server side action to zip file that will allow you to use your API key to zip a private file

I will also consider an url checker to remove any url that return an error (40X) to avoid this issue. They should be listed in a new state

moham.belghiti · May 2, 2021, 8:46am

Wow it would be so nice !! Thanks @Jici

hacker · May 9, 2021, 6:53pm

Hey, @Jici,

First of all, great plugin

Do you mean I can enter the download percentage in a progress bar?

Another thing, I don’t know if this can be achieved:

I have a Type called “Houses” and another called “File”.
“Houses” has 2 fields “Name” (text) and “Files” (list of "FIles). And “File” has 2 fields “File” (file) and “Name” (text).
I need to have a button to download all houses with all the files.
The downloaded file should be a ZIP with folders inside. Each folder´s name should be the"Name" (text) of each “House” and inside all the files with file name “Name” (text) of each file.

Is this be possible?

Thanks in advance

Jici · May 9, 2021, 11:56pm

Hi @hacker
Thanks
You can use progress bar with progression state yes. this is exactly what I do on the demo page.
For your question with folder, I think it’s possible.
The complexity is more related to the list of files that are related to a single item that contain the folder name. If you also store the house name at file level, it would be easier.
What I think is that you will need to:
File list url = Do a search for files’file
File name = Do a search for files:format as text:extract with regex
In the format as text, content to show per item, Do a search for house where “Files” containt this files:first item’s name / (manually write /) This file’s name
Delimiter |
And in the extract with regex, use: [^|]+

hacker · May 14, 2021, 2:20pm

Great, thanks, @Jici

cmarchan · May 18, 2021, 1:00am

@Jici

Hello Jean Claude!

Can you please explain what this limit is? … is it 50 MB?

Jici · May 18, 2021, 1:02am

Hi @cmarchan I may need to test but it was before Bubble raise the max size of file. Before this was limited to 50 mo. I think it’s now 5GB but I didn’t test with a large file size. This is a client side (for now, working on a server version too). So actually, you don’t need to save it to Bubble. You can let client directly save the zip file