The TarInputStream reads a UNIX tar archive as an InputStream.
methods are provided to position at each successive entry in
the archive, and the read each entry as a normal input stream
using read().
Kerry Menzel Contributed the code to support
file sizes greater than 2GB (longs versus ints).
TarInputStream.EntryFactory
This interface is provided, with the method setEntryFactory(), to allow
the programmer to have their own TarEntry subclass instantiated for the
entries return from getNextEntry().
Get the available data that can be read from the current
entry in the archive. This does not indicate how much data
is left in the entire archive, only in the current entry.
This value is determined from the entry's size header field
and the amount of data already read from the current entry.
The number of available bytes for the current entry.
skip
public long skip(long numToSkip)
throws IOException
Skip bytes in the input buffer. This skips bytes in the
current entry's data, not the entire archive, and will
stop at the end of the current entry's data if the number
to skip extends beyond that point.
Get the number of bytes into the current TarEntry.
This method returns the number of bytes that have been read
from the current TarEntry's data.
getStreamPosition
public long getStreamPosition()
Get the number of bytes into the stream we are currently at.
This method accounts for the blocking stream that tar uses,
so it represents the actual position in input stream, as
opposed to the place where the tar archive parsing is.
Get the next entry in this tar archive. This will skip
over any remaining data in the current entry, if there
is one, and place the input stream at the header of the
next entry, and read the header and instantiate a new
TarEntry from the header bytes and return that entry.
If there are no more entries in the archive, null will
be returned to indicate that the end of the archive has
been reached.
public int read(byte[] buf,
int offset,
int numToRead)
throws IOException
Reads bytes from the current tar archive entry.
This method is aware of the boundaries of the current
entry in the archive and will deal with them as if they
were this stream's start and EOF.