Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of ApertureArchives

Timestamp:

10/12/05 13:40:55 (19 years ago)

Author:

anonymous

Comment:

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ApertureArchives

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 Some functionality that is still missing but that we at Aduna would really like to have (customer demand!) is support for handling archives such as zip, gzip and rar files.
 
-The interface for doing archive extraction will probably be a mixture of Extractor and !DataSource/!DataCrawler. On the one hand they will be mimetype-specific and will operate on an !InputStream (perhaps a !DataObject), just like Extractor, on the other hand they deliver a stream of new !DataObjects.
+The interface for doing archive extraction will probably be a mixture of Extractor and !DataSource/!DataCrawler. On the one hand they will be mimetype-specific and will operate on an !InputStream /!DataObject, just like Extractor, on the other hand they deliver a stream of new !DataObjects.
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+I think it's best to let it operate on a DataObject, as I expect that a gzip stream does not contain a file name for its contents, whereas people probably expect the archived file to have a name equal to its parent minus the .z/.gz extension. 
 
 A URI scheme also has to be developed for such nested objects, so that you can identify a stream packed inside an archive.