[jira] Created: (COMPRESS-122) add the ability to detect a symlink in a tar file

[Max Birkoff (JIRA)]

add the ability to detect a symlink in a tar file
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                 Key: COMPRESS-122
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-122
             Project: Commons Compress
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Archivers
    Affects Versions: 1.1
         Environment: all
            Reporter: Max Birkoff
             Fix For: 1.2


It is not currently posible to determine if an entry in a tar archive denotes a 
symbolic link or not; the only existing query mechanism is: isDirectory()

I propose to add the following patch to:
  
commons-compress-1.1-src/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/tar/TarArchiveEntry.java

Thanks much in advance,

--- TarArchiveEntry.java.0      2010-10-27 13:30:58.669839000 -0700
+++ TarArchiveEntry.java        2010-10-27 13:54:48.344231000 -0700
@@ -594,6 +594,15 @@
     }

     /**
+     * Return whether or not this entry represents a symbolic link.
+     *
+     * @return True if this entry represents a symbolic link, false otherwise.
+     */
+    public boolean isSymbolicLink() {
+        return (linkFlag == LF_SYMLINK);
+    }
+
+    /**
      * If this entry represents a file, and the file is a directory, return
      * an array of TarEntries for this entry's children.
      *

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