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Sebb commented on COMPRESS-59:
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If users want different information, they can code it themselves.
But having no String representations at all means everyone will need to do the
same or similar work, which seems very wasteful.
Seems to me it's going to be a common need.
> ArchiveEntry could have toString methods for formatting header contents
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> Key: COMPRESS-59
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-59
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Minor
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> I think it would be useful if the ArchiveEntry interface had some methods for
> formatting the entry information as a String.
> This could then be used to create an Archive scanner to list archive
> contents, for example.
> There should probably be two methods:
> toShortString() - shows name, type and size only.
> toLongString() - shows all the details.
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