Hi Anne, Florian, I think the first baby step, or MVP, is the unpacking that Florian mentions below. I would definitely like to have the API available on both workers and normal context.
Thanks, Paul From: Florian Bösch <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 14:52:36 +0200 To: Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Paul Bakaus <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Charles McCathie Nevile <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, public-webapps WG <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Andrea Marchesini <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: ZIP archive API? I'm interested a JS API that does the following: Unpacking: - Receive an archive from a Dataurl, Blob, URL object, File (as in filesystem API) or Arraybuffer - List its content and metadata - Unpack members to Dataurl, Blob, URL object, File or Arraybuffer Packing: - Create an archive - Put in members passing a Dataurl, Blob, URL object, File or Arraybuffer - Serialize archive to Dataurl, Blob, URL object, File or Arraybuffer To avoid the whole worker/proxy thing and to allow authors to selectively choose how they want to handle the data, I'd like to see synchronous and asynchronous versions of each. I'd make synchronicity an argument/flag or something to avoid API clutter like packSync, packAsync, writeSync, writeAsync, and rather like write(data, callback|boolean). - Pythons zipfile API is ok, except the getinfo/setinfo stuff is a bit over the top: http://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html - Pythons tarfile API is less clutered and easier to use: http://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html - zip.js isn't really usable as it doesn't support the full range of types (Dataurl, Blob, URL object, File or Arraybuffer) and for asynchronous operation needs to rely on a worker, which is bothersome to setup: http://stuk.github.io/jszip/ My own implementation of the tar format only targets array buffers and works synchronously, as in. var archive = new TarFile(arraybuffer); var memberArrayBuffer = archive.get('filename'); On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Paul Bakaus <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Still waiting for it as well. I think it'd be very useful to transfer sets > of assets etc. Do you have anything in particular you'd like to see happen first? It's pretty clear we should expose more here, but as with all things we should do it in baby steps. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
