The existing ArchiveInputStream and ArchiveOutputStream abstract classes are quite minimal. Seems to me that there is quite a lot of common code that they could provide.
For example, if the Stream was stored as a protected variable, then they could provide generic implementations for many of the stream methods, e.g. read() and read(byte[]) and close(). I know that the existing implementations mostly do all of this already (I recently added some missing methods), but the implementations vary somewhat, and should make it easier to add new implementations. We could also add some new methods with partial implementations, for example putArchiveEntry(File) extractFile(File basedir, Entry) and possibly getNextFile() WDYT? I can post sample implementations on JIRA for review if there is any support for these ideas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
