On 2009-03-29, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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(). If the current implementations are similar enough that one can really extract methods in a useful way, go for it. > We could also add some new methods with partial implementations, for example > putArchiveEntry(File) > extractFile(File basedir, Entry) If this is a common usecase, yes. The only real user of a simial API I know is Ant and here those methods wouldn't help since they don't provide a way to specify permissions and so on. > and possibly getNextFile() what would that do? Call getNextEntry until one is not a directory? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
