Archive::Tar::Minitar

Archive::Tar::Minitar 0.5.2

Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. The implementation is based heavily on Mauricio Ferna'ndez's implementation in rpa-base, but has been reorganised to promote reuse in other projects.

This tar class performs a subset of all tar (POSIX tape archive) operations. We can only deal with typeflags 0, 1, 2, and 5 (see Archive::Tar::PosixHeader). All other typeflags will be treated as normal files.

NOTE:

support for typeflags 1 and 2 is not yet implemented in this version.

This release is version 0.5.2. The library can only handle files and directories at this point. A future version will be expanded to handle symbolic links and hard links in a portable manner. The command line utility, minitar, can only create archives, extract from archives, and list archive contents.

Synopsis

Using this library is easy. The simplest case is:

require 'zlib'
require 'archive/tar/minitar'
include Archive::Tar

  # Packs everything that matches Find.find('tests')
File.open('test.tar', 'wb') { |tar| Minitar.pack('tests', tar) }
  # Unpacks 'test.tar' to 'x', creating 'x' if necessary.
Minitar.unpack('test.tar', 'x')

A gzipped tar can be written with:

tgz = Zlib::GzipWriter.new(File.open('test.tgz', 'wb'))
  # Warning: tgz will be closed!
Minitar.pack('tests', tgz)

tgz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(File.open('test.tgz', 'rb'))
  # Warning: tgz will be closed!
Minitar.unpack(tgz, 'x')

As the case above shows, one need not write to a file. However, it will sometimes require that one dive a little deeper into the API, as in the case of StringIO objects. Note that I'm not providing a block with Minitar::Output, as Minitar::Output#close automatically closes both the Output object and the wrapped data stream object.

begin
  sgz = Zlib::GzipWriter.new(StringIO.new(""))
  tar = Output.new(sgz)
  Find.find('tests') do |entry|
    Minitar.pack_file(entry, tar)
  end
ensure
    # Closes both tar and sgz.
  tar.close
end

Copyright

Copyright 2004 Mauricio Julio Ferna'ndez Pradier and Austin Ziegler

This program is based on and incorporates parts of RPA::Package from rpa-base (lib/rpa/package.rb and lib/rpa/util.rb) by Mauricio and has been adapted to be more generic by Austin.

'minitar' contains an adaptation of Ruby/ProgressBar by Satoru Takabayashi <satoru@namazu.org>, copyright 2001 - 2004.

This program is free software. It may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GPL version 2 (or later) or Ruby's licence.

Constants

VERSION

Public Class Methods

dir?(path) click to toggle source

Tests if path refers to a directory. Fixes an apparently corrupted stat() call on Windows.

# File lib/archive/tar/minitar.rb, line 832
def dir?(path)
  File.directory?((path[-1] == //) ? path : "#{path}/")
end
open(dest, mode = "r", &block) click to toggle source

A convenience method for wrapping Archive::Tar::Minitar::Input.open (mode r) and Archive::Tar::Minitar::Output.open (mode w). No other modes are currently supported.

# File lib/archive/tar/minitar.rb, line 839
def open(dest, mode = "r", &block)
  case mode
  when "r"
    Input.open(dest, &block)
  when "w"
    Output.open(dest, &block)
  else
    raise "Unknown open mode for Archive::Tar::Minitar.open."
  end
end
pack(src, dest, recurse_dirs = true, &block) click to toggle source

A convenience method to pack files specified by src into dest. If src is an Array, then each file detailed therein will be packed into the resulting Archive::Tar::Minitar::Output stream; if recurse_dirs is true, then directories will be recursed.

If src is an Array, it will be treated as the argument to Find.find; all files matching will be packed.

# File lib/archive/tar/minitar.rb, line 941
def pack(src, dest, recurse_dirs = true, &block)
  Output.open(dest) do |outp|
    if src.kind_of?(Array)
      src.each do |entry|
        pack_file(entry, outp, &block)
        if dir?(entry) and recurse_dirs
          Dir["#{entry}/**/**"].each do |ee|
            pack_file(ee, outp, &block)
          end
        end
      end
    else
      Find.find(src) do |entry|
        pack_file(entry, outp, &block)
      end
    end
  end
end
pack_file(entry, outputter) click to toggle source

A convenience method to packs the file provided. entry may either be a filename (in which case various values for the file (see below) will be obtained from File#stat(entry) or a Hash with the fields:

:name

The filename to be packed into the tarchive. REQUIRED.

:mode

The mode to be applied.

:uid

The user owner of the file. (Ignored on Windows.)

:gid

The group owner of the file. (Ignored on Windows.)

:mtime

The modification Time of the file.

During packing, if a block is provided, pack_file yields an action Symol, the full name of the file being packed, and a Hash of statistical information, just as with Archive::Tar::Minitar::Input#extract_entry.

The action will be one of:

:dir

The entry is a directory.

:file_start

The entry is a file; the extract of the file is just beginning.

:file_progress

Yielded every 4096 bytes during the extract of the entry.

:file_done

Yielded when the entry is completed.

The stats hash contains the following keys:

:current

The current total number of bytes read in the entry.

:currinc

The current number of bytes read in this read cycle.

:name

The filename to be packed into the tarchive. REQUIRED.

:mode

The mode to be applied.

:uid

The user owner of the file. (nil on Windows.)

:gid

The group owner of the file. (nil on Windows.)

:mtime

The modification Time of the file.

# File lib/archive/tar/minitar.rb, line 885
def pack_file(entry, outputter) #:yields action, name, stats:
  outputter = outputter.tar if outputter.kind_of?(Archive::Tar::Minitar::Output)

  stats = {}

  if entry.kind_of?(Hash)
    name = entry[:name]

    entry.each { |kk, vv| stats[kk] = vv unless vv.nil? }
  else
    name = entry
  end
  
  name = name.sub(%{\./}, '')
  stat = File.stat(name)
  stats[:mode]   ||= stat.mode
  stats[:mtime]  ||= stat.mtime
  stats[:size]   = stat.size

  if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32/
    stats[:uid]  = nil
    stats[:gid]  = nil
  else
    stats[:uid]  ||= stat.uid
    stats[:gid]  ||= stat.gid
  end

  case
  when File.file?(name)
    outputter.add_file_simple(name, stats) do |os|
      stats[:current] = 0
      yield :file_start, name, stats if block_given?
      File.open(name, "rb") do |ff|
        until ff.eof?
          stats[:currinc] = os.write(ff.read(4096))
          stats[:current] += stats[:currinc]
          yield :file_progress, name, stats if block_given?
        end
      end
      yield :file_done, name, stats if block_given?
    end
  when dir?(name)
    yield :dir, name, stats if block_given?
    outputter.mkdir(name, stats)
  else
    raise "Don't yet know how to pack this type of file."
  end
end
unpack(src, dest, files = [], &block) click to toggle source

A convenience method to unpack files from src into the directory specified by dest. Only those files named explicitly in files will be extracted.

# File lib/archive/tar/minitar.rb, line 963
def unpack(src, dest, files = [], &block)
  Input.open(src) do |inp|
    if File.exist?(dest) and (not dir?(dest))
      raise "Can't unpack to a non-directory."
    elsif not File.exist?(dest)
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(dest)
    end

    inp.each do |entry|
      if files.empty? or files.include?(entry.full_name)
        inp.extract_entry(dest, entry, &block)
      end
    end
  end
end

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