Reading from compressed files in Dataflow

Question

Is there a way (or any kind of hack) to read input data from compressed files? My input consists of a few hundreds of files, which are produced as compressed with gzip and u

Answer 1

I also found that for files that reside in the cloud store, setting the content type and content encoding appears to "just work" without the need for a workaround.

Specifically - I run

gsutil -m setmeta -h "Content-Encoding:gzip" -h "Content-Type:text/plain"