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CaffeineCaffeine 

Metadata API: retrieve() unzipped?

In the Metadata API documentation, the retrieve() example code pulls down the requested content in a zip file (which is great), but is there a way to use retrieve() and get the metadata unzipped?

 

I'm working on a Metadata tool and I want to just pull down the content and access the files the directly.

 

(I know I can unzip the files programmatically in Java, but was hoping there was a way to skip this step).

 

Thanks,

C

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JonPJonP
The Metadata API only returns components as files in a zip archive.  There's no other way to get them.

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JonPJonP
The Metadata API only returns components as files in a zip archive.  There's no other way to get them.
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CaffeineCaffeine

Thanks, Jon.  Thought it was worth a shot. 

 

Just wondering though...when the Ant Toolkit does a retrieve() how is that the files are not zipped in the directory structure?  Is salesforce's ant-lib unzipping them?

 

Thanks again.