Simple high-level api to do with one line what you can do with one command in a
command shell
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Key: COMPRESS-118
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-118
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Archivers
Reporter: Eirik Maus
There should be a high-level api for basic operations with archives in Java.
This could be a place for it. There are a few apis for working with compression
archives in java, but all of them are fairly low-level. The most basic
operations therefore requires just as much code as more specific ones. It is
not possible to unzip an archive in less than 50 lines of code, can you believe
it!
Performing basic operations on archives should be as easy in java as on the
command line. I suggest adding something like:
HighLevelApi.extractAll(zipfile,destinationDirectory)
or, even
new ZipFile(file).extractAllTo(directory)
and
ZipFile archive = HighLevelApi.createFrom(directory, "*");
or, even
ZipFile archive = ZipFile.from(directory);
In general: one line in bash should be one line in java (plus try-catch...) for
these kinds of operations.
See "zip --help" and "unzip --help" for further candidate methods in the
high-level API.
One could also consider a coordinated effort with the VFS-project, in order to
add such methods to all such hierarchies/storages.
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