Gauche-zip-archive

A library to read/write zip archive file.

Requirements

• Gauche 0.9.5 pre1 or later

Install Building from tarball

% ./configure
% make install

For windows without MSYS

> install.bat

Usage

This library name is zip-archive. Use it at first.

(use zip-archive)

Procedures

Procedures that this library provides is two categories with roughly. That is writing and reading.

For writing

(open-output-zip-archive string)

Takes a string naming an output zip archive to be created and returns an output-zip-archive object.

(zip-close output-zip-archive)

Finanize the archive associated with output-zip-archive.

(zip-add-entry output-zip-archive string1 string2)

Write entry that named string1 into the file associated output-zip-archive. The content of the entry is string2. This is a generic function.

If you want to store an object other than string, be able to define a method.

(call-with-output-zip-archive string proc)

Open output zip archive that named string to write and call proc with output-zip-archive object. proc must receive one argument.

The output-zip-archive object is closed automatically after return from proc.

(output-zip-archive? obj)

This procedure return #t if obj is output-zip-archive object. Otherwise this return #f.

For reading

(open-input-zip-archive string)

Takes a string naming an input zip archive to be created and returns a input-zip-archive object.

input-zip-archive class is iherited <collection> class. You can handle this as if it were a collection that contains the entry objects. See gauche.collection.

(zip-close input-zip-archive)

Close the archive associated with input-zip-archive.

(call-with-input-zip-archive string proc)

Open the zip archive that named string for reading and call proc with input-zip-archive object. proc must receive one argument.

The input-zip-archive object is closed automatically after return from proc.

(zip-entries input-zip-archive)

Returns a list of entry objects in the input-zip-archive.

input-zip-archive object is collection. You should not take entries from input-zip-archive object explicitly by zip-entries.

(zip-entry-timestamp zip-entry)

Returns timestamp of zip-entry as a date object.

(zip-entry-datasize zip-entry)

Returns uncompressed size of content in zip-entry. A size of the content is a number of bytes.

(zip-entry-filename zip-entry)

Returns filename of zip-entry.

(zip-entry-body zip-entry)

Inflate content of zip-entry and returns it as a string.