[Barret]

Project
Source of custom archiver with GUI

Dependencies
https://github.com/TheBarret/HeaderKit



Bare bone features

• Pack and Unpack using GZip
  


• Header integrity check (Using the Header project)
  

How does it work?

I simply started to make a base class called 'entity' then on top of it i defined my file or directory classes that would hold
info about the item it harbors, such as ID, type ,checksum and creation date.
These entities are build in a tree structure and hold a parent property, this way we can search recursively.

Find/Locate and Extract methods:

Search by generated unique id, returns true if results are found
(Match can be wildcard pattern *abc*)

Code

Public Function FindByGuid(match As String, ByRef result As List(Of Entity)) As Boolean

Search by filename, returns true if results are found
(Match can be wildcard pattern *abc*)

Code

Public Function FindByName(match As String, ByRef result As List(Of Entity)) As Boolean

The resolver is a more direct approach to locate an entity, returns true if a result has been found

Code

Public Function TryResolve(path As String, ByRef result As Entity) As Boolean

Each entity has its own extractTo function, you can extract all or just a single entity,
keep in mind that the extractor expects the same folder output if a single entity is extracted.

Code

Public Function ExtractTo(Directory As String, Optional Overwrite As Boolean = False) As Boolean

Entity properties

Base properties

Code

Public ReadOnly Property Name As String
Public ReadOnly Property Guid As String
Public ReadOnly Property Created As DateTime
Public ReadOnly Property Type As EntityType
Public ReadOnly Property Path As String

Directory properties

Code

Public ReadOnly Property Parent As Entity
Public Property Content As List(Of Entity)

File entity properties

Code

Public ReadOnly Property Content As Byte()
Public ReadOnly Property Parent As Entity
Public ReadOnly Property Checksum As UInt32

Github link: https://github.com/TheBarret/Archiver

Notice that the github project is subject to get updates or/and changes

[log dot zip]

Another awesome release, good demonstration of your header lib. Good stuff. Keep it up!