Extract Archive breaks when subfolder has space in name

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

I think in rpaframework==22.0.0 the keyword RPA.Archive.Extract Archive breaks when there is a subfolder with a space in the name. That is, within the file you want to extract, if there is a subfolder with a space in its name, the entire extraction process breaks. Example:

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The subfolder is actually created without the space so when it tries to extract files into that subfolder, it (correctly) thinks the subfolder doesn’t exist.

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I’m seeing this was implemented for the zipfile library on Windows, which I’m on, so I suppose this is expected.

3

This was resolved with the following snippet provided by Robocorp staff:

import zipfile
import os

def extract_archive_and_remove_trailing_spaces_from_directories(zip_path):
    # Open the zip archive in read/write mode
    with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_file:
        # Iterate over each item in the archive
        for item in zip_file.infolist():
            # Extract the item's name and remove trailing spaces
            item_name = item.filename.replace(" /", "/")

            # Extract the item and add it to the new archive
            if item.is_dir():
                os.makedirs(item_name)
            else:
                with zip_file.open(item) as source, open(item_name, "wb") as dest:
                    dest.write(source.read())
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