ZipOutputStream & directories

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/03/2023 19:16, Lance Andersen wrote:
> :
>
> So I guess I do not see a huge downside, however we might want to look 
> at a property to adjust in the unlikely event the unexpected occurs?
>
> Alan thoughts?
>
Yeah, the jar tool does the right thing and writes directories entries 
with the STORED method and a size of 0.

Eirik's mail mentions that 7% of Spring Petclinic dependences are 
directories. It might be interesting to dig into that to see how they 
are generated, is it mostly maven-jar-plugin and if so, which APIs is it 
using?

Changing ZOS.putNextEntry to ignore the method/size provided by the 
caller would change long standing behavior, and Hyrum's Law has it that 
somebody will notice. This may be something for an API note rather than 
an implementation change.

-Alan