Entry information

[TethysSvensson]

It would be nice to be able to get information about entries, e.g. file type or the creation time.

[otavio]

Great. Do you have an idea for the API?

[Jonathas-Conceicao]

Libarchive does provide a few functions for getting information about entries. A think they would generally come in hand when iterating over them in the API we currently provide.

It would need some internal code change, but I think it would be useful to have them accesable as methods over the iterator::ArchiveContents.

[TethysSvensson]

I've implemented a hack to support my usecase here: https://github.com/TethysSvensson/compress-tools-rs/commit/d52e0fd4082d26ce86f8847290651aa4239a8c1a .

I don't think this is a particularly good implementation or API, but as I said it does support my usecase.

[otavio]

@TethysSvensson, the proposed API isn't bad. I think the stat could use a Rust type for it. Did you improve it?

[TethysSvensson]

@otavio No, I'm still using my branch from November.

[otavio]

Please rebase and prepare a PR.

[otavio]

@TethysSvensson, https://docs.rs/nix/latest/nix/sys/stat/struct.FileStat.html could be an option.

[otavio]

Once you prepare an initial PR, I'll try to rework it.

[TethysSvensson]

@TethysSvensson, https://docs.rs/nix/latest/nix/sys/stat/struct.FileStat.html could be an option.

The FileStat struct in the nix crate is simply a re-export of the stat struct from the libc crate.

[otavio]

Fixed in f654d6d.