FYI, the VFS sandbox project supports ZIP files. Have you considered using it? Here (work) we are considering using it.
VFS seems stable from my use, I am wondering what it would take to graduate this project? Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 07:38 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Commons - FileUpload - DefaultFileItem > > I just finished writing a class that is almost identical (via cut-n-paste) > to the DefaultFileItem class except that it supports ZIP/GZIP files (and > automatically unzips them on the fly). This allows our web application to > put the unzipped files in a directory for processing by another > application > without going through an additional step to unzip them after they are > received. > > My question is: Does anyone know why the constructor for this class is > package scope, instead of protected? My reason for asking is that if you > could inherit from this, you could make customized file handlers based on > the content type and simply override/extend whichever methods seemed > appropriate. In my case, I would only need to override the write() > method. > With the way the class is now, you can't inherit it from it because it > doesn't have a public or protected constructor. > I don't want to add my code in to the org.apache.commons.fileupload > package > since I would like to leave this code alone and in its own .jar. > > TIA for any help or opinions. > > -Eric > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]