Support comment and extra attributes with zipfs
Marco Hunsicker
jdk at triemax.com
Wed Sep 14 15:47:42 UTC 2016
Hi,
great to see that the zip file system provider has been promoted to
official status! I've recently started to play with it and I really like
the unified way to perform I/O. I wish there were already more providers
available...
Anyway, I've ran into a major problem with zipfs for my needs: setting
and getting comments for individual entries is not supported!
I've created a ticket (Review ID: JI-9043744), but thought a message
here probably won't hurt.
The basic bits are there (in ZipFileSystem.java), but the attribute is
not exposed to the outside world (through ZipFileAttributeView.java).
The necessary changes are trivial though. Maybe this would be something
that could still be added in time for Java 9?
I've applied the necessary changes to my local copy of the JDK 8 demo
sources and find it working well for me. Please let me know if you need
any details.
The "extra" attribute is missing support as well, but here the situation
seems to be worse. I was not able to read an extra attribute that has
been set with the oldschool API after applying the same changes as for
the "comment" attribute (Linux 64 bit JDK 8.0_102-b14). There might be a
a bug with ZipFileSystem.Entry.
Looking at the test harness, I could not find any tests that deal with
zip specific attributes, but I might be missing something. Thanks.
Cheers,
Marco
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