Unfortunately, there are no out-of-the-box capabilities inside Logic Apps, Consumption or Standard, to zip (or compress) files. You may be wondering why we need this type of capability. Well, there are legacy systems or integrations that require these capabilities, especially when the communication channel is email.
And yes, still happens today! It is not uncommon that some partners require that messages (or files) be sent by email, and to minimize the impact (to avoid reaching the attachment size limit or filling the mailbox), to zip the attachment.
This is also very useful to migrate AS IS BizTalk Server solutions into Azure (in this case, AS-IS means without changing the solution requirements).
And what does this Azure Function do?
The ZipFile Azure Function is simply an Azure Function that zips an inbound file. This can later be sent in an attachment of an email, sent to a folder or storage account.
Where can I download it?
You can download the complete Azure Functions source code here:
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