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Stefan Bodewig resolved COMPRESS-122.
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Resolution: Fixed
Thanks, Max.
I went a bit further than your suggestion and also added isLink, isFIFO and
similar methods in
svn revision 1028793
> add the ability to detect a symlink in a tar file
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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