simple-archive

simple-archive is the simplest possbible crate to handle compressed archives and file streams.

Under the hood it uses the libarchive library to handle data. There is a direct ffi covnersion from the libarchive library that can also be used, but the purpose of the library is to provide a simpler API in the rust world on top of libarchive.

Dependencies

libarchive must be installed. At the time of this writing the only version tested with the library is 3.7.4. Older version might work just fine, but it's simply untested

Since libarchive is an umbrella on top of other libraries, depending on the desired data format to be handled, additional libraries should also be installed in the system.

Features

• read file formats compatible with libarchive
• filters on top of output format files supported by libarchive
• directly compress source data object with Read+Seek traits
• extract objects from archive data.

Compress files

use std::fs::File;

let output = File::create("tests/fixtures_out/compressed.tar.gz").unwrap();
let mut a = ArchiveWriter::new(output).unwrap();
a.set_output_targz().unwrap();
a.open().unwrap(); 
a.add_file("/path/to/your/file", "path/inside/output/archive").unwrap();

Uncompress files

use std::fs::File;

let input = File::open("tests/fixtures_out/compressed.tar.gz").unwrap();
let mut a = ArchiveReader::new(output).unwrap();
...

License

Licensed under either of

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)