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Peter Lee commented on COMPRESS-574:
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> _curl -r 200-500 download?zip_name=myzip&file_names=A,C_

For this case, why we need to read a specific range of bytes of entries from a 
zip?

I think most people will never use this.

> Byte range support in archive creation
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-574
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-574
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Archivers
>            Reporter: Gaël Lalire
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: DynamicZip.java, DynamicZipTest.java
>
>
> When you have a ZIP which contains _N_ components and you want to let the 
> user choose which components it needs, you need to create _2^N - 1_ ZIP.
> So the idea is to store each component once (or twice if you want both 
> deflated and stored version), and create the ZIP on the fly.
> For the moment you can stream with a ZipOutputStream but if you need an 
> InputStream things get a lot harder. I guess programs are writing the ZIP to 
> a file system and read from it after, so not really a streaming anymore.
> Also ZipOutputStream will never allow you to resume from a byte range, you 
> need to generate all previous data.
> So I made a class to do that, I think such functionality has its place in 
> commons compress.
> You can see my code attached and adapt it for better integration / other 
> archive type support or simply to get inspired.
>  



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