ZipEntry

[Alan Snyder]

ZipEntry is a public class and I am aware that it is used outside the JDK. Presumably that is not a problem.

I’m wondering why the class stores the external file attributes field but does not provide public accessors for it.

I would find it useful to have access to this field. I would rather not have to switch to using a third party library just for this reason.

I understand that the interpretation of the external file attributes is not standardized, but the field itself is defined in the standard
cited by the package info page, so I don’t see the harm in making it accessible without interpretation.

  Alan