[vfs] Referencing .zip files

[Mark Murphy <mm...@arroco.com>]

I'm attempting to use the zip file system with VFS 1.0 RC3, and I can't 
seem to get the URL definition right.

For a zip file that exists on the local file system, I have tried all of 
the following:

zip:/shared/projects/foo/test.zip
zip:///shared/projects/foo/test.zip
zip:file:///shared/projects/foo/test.zip
zip://file:///shared/projects/foo/test.zip

For all of these, FileSystemManager::resolveFile(String strUrl) raises 
the following exception:

org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Could not find file with URI 
"" because it is a relative path, and no base URI was provided

I know that VFS can get to the zip file itself, because this URL works:

/shared/projects/foo/test.zip

but, of course, only references it as a simple file, not as an archive. 
I wanted to use VFS to get at the innards of the zip file.

Any tips? Outside of this, VFS has been working very nicely for me, and 
I'm most appreciative of this component.

Thanks!

Mark Murphy
mmurphy@arroco.com


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Re: [vfs] Referencing .zip files

[Mark Murphy <mm...@arroco.com>]

Mario Ivankovits wrote:
>> I'm attempting to use the zip file system with VFS 1.0 RC3, and I 
>> can't seem to get the URL definition right.
>>
>> zip:/shared/projects/foo/test.zip
> 
> The magic is to append a "!".
> 
> zip:/shared/projects/foo/test.zip!/

Aha!

Or, rather, zip:Aha!/

;-)

Works like a champ. Thanks!

Mark Murphy
mmurphy@arroco.com

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Re: [vfs] Referencing .zip files

[Mario Ivankovits <ma...@ops.co.at>]

Hi Mark!
> I'm attempting to use the zip file system with VFS 1.0 RC3, and I 
> can't seem to get the URL definition right.
>
> zip:/shared/projects/foo/test.zip
The magic is to append a "!".

zip:/shared/projects/foo/test.zip!/

Currently VFS needs to know where to find the "inner" and "outer" part 
of the url. Looks like an side-effect of one of my filename parsing 
changes .
I fixed it, the next nightly should be able to handle zip-filenames as 
documented again.

> Outside of this, VFS has been working very nicely for me, and I'm most 
> appreciative of this component.
Thanks!

Ciao,
Mario