[COMPRESS-214] better support for unix symlinks

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Archivers
• Assignee: Julius Davies
• Reporter: Julius Davies
• Created: 09/Jan/13 00:56
• Updated: 15/Jan/17 17:01
• Resolved: 20/Feb/13 19:26

Description

The current API is a little awkward when dealing with symlinks (e.g., those created using Info-Zip's "zip -y").

I propose the following three methods for ZipArchiveEntry:

public boolean isUnixSymlink()

public String getUnixSymlink(ZipFile zf)

public String getUnixSymlink(ZipFile zf, String pathCharset)

Issue Links

• relates to: COMPRESS-379 isUnixSymlink returns true for Zip entries with Unix permissions 177777