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rahulmengji
January 10, 2020
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Initialization has failed due to: There was an error uncompressing the action archive.

  • January 10, 2020
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Hi,

 

I'm following the documentation for creation the web actions. I'm able to successfully deploy using wskdeploy, but when i'm invoking the action, it throws the following error. Any input on what may be doing wrong?

 

Initialization has failed due to: There was an error uncompressing the action archive.

 

Documentation link - https://adobedocs.github.io/adobeio-runtime/guides/creating_actions.html

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mihai-corlanAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 24, 2020

Hello there,

 

Can you try using wsk for deploying your ZIP? 

There is another way of deploying a ZIP action using the wsk command. You miss the manifest.yaml file flexibility with this mode; you can’t define multiple actions/packages at the same time. The ZIP file has to have in the root the package.json file.
wsk action create my-action --kind nodejs:10 zip-file.zip

cheers,
Mihai
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RossMyronenko
March 31, 2021

Hi there,

 

Seems it does not work on Windows at all: https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdeploy/issues/913 

Once I have downloaded the ZIP created by wskdeploy, I found that it added to archive folder path starting from C:/. It did not include all disk content, but included empty folders which break the ZIP structure and action cannot be properly executed:

 

 

Suggested workaround to use wsk for ZIP deployment instead works fine for me, but it makes work on actions much harder because each action should be packaged and uploaded separately.

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jesusp40724969
March 13, 2020

Hi,

 

I had the same issue and was fixed added the js file in the manifest file. Below you can see an example:

 

function: actions/main.js

 

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mihai-corlanAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
April 13, 2020

We've updated the docs to highlight that if you have dependencies, then you have to point to the folder where the action is defined and the action has to be defined in a file called index.js

 

https://github.com/AdobeDocs/adobeio-runtime/blob/master/guides/creating_actions.md#deploying-zip-actions

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