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 just noticed that specifying the compression type is now available in the latest version of the SDK (v0.3.150210). I've tested it, and was able to load my GZ files directly from GCS to BQ without any problems.