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Sebb commented on COMPRESS-59:
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Rather than add a toString() method to each implementation, would you be happy
with a new AbstractArchiveEntry class that has the generic toString()
implementation?
That is, derive the concrete classes by extending AbstractArchiveEntry rather
than implementing ArchiveEntry.
We would then have the string representations getName() and toString() which
should be enough for basic displays and debugging.
> ArchiveEntry could have toString methods for formatting header contents
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> Key: COMPRESS-59
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-59
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Minor
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> I think it would be useful if the ArchiveEntry interface had some methods for
> formatting the entry information as a String.
> This could then be used to create an Archive scanner to list archive
> contents, for example.
> There should probably be two methods:
> toShortString() - shows name, type and size only.
> toLongString() - shows all the details.
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