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Component: Archive
Functions to work with archives including zip, tar and bz2.
See also Compression functions.
| Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| 9.0 / 15.0 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Archive.AddContainer Adds a container value to the current archive. | All 13.1 |
| Archive.AddFile Add files to the current archive. | All 13.1 |
| Archive.AddText Add a text file to the archive. | All 13.1 |
| Archive.BZip2Version Queries version of bzip2 library. | All 13.2 |
| Archive.Close Closes the current archive. | All 13.1 |
| Archive.Compress Compresses files to an archive. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.CompressContainer Compresses one container into a new archive. | All 11.1 |
| Archive.CompressText Compresses a text into a new archive. | All 14.3 |
| Archive.Content Lists content of archive as JSON. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.Create Creates a new archive. | All 13.1 |
| Archive.Extract Extracts files in an archive. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.ExtractFile Extracts one file and returns as container. | All 10.4 |
| Archive.FileList Lists file paths in the archive. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.GZipDecompress Extracts content of gzip file as container. | All 11.3 |
| Archive.IsOpen Queries whether an archive is currently open. | All 15.0 |
| Archive.LZ4Version Queries version of lz4 library. | All 13.2 |
| Archive.LibVersion Queries version of LibArchive. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.LibVersionDetails Queries version of LibArchive. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.SupportedFormats Returns the list of supported formats. | All 9.0 |
| Archive.Verify Verifies files in an archive. | All 9.2 |
| Archive.ZLibVersion Queries version of zlib library. | All 13.2 |
| Archive.ZStdVersion Queries version of zest library. | All 13.2 |
| Archive.lzmaVersion Queries version of lzma library. | All 13.2 |
23 functions shown.
These functions require a license (65%).
Release notes
- Version 15.3
- Added bzip2 and zstd as filter for zip archives for Archive.Compress, Archive.CompressContainer, Archive.CompressText and Archive.Create functions.
- Version 15.2
- Fixed Archive.Compress to better compress folder itself if file list is empty.
- Improved Archive.Compress to compress folder itself if file list is empty.
- Version 15.0
- Added Archive.IsOpen function.
- Version 14.5
- Changed Archive.Content to skip GID, UID, Permissions, RDev, FileType and HardLink fields, if not set.
- Version 14.4
- Improved Archive functions and UnZipFile.OpenContainer function to better read zip archives downloaded via Insert From URL script step.
- Version 14.3
- Added Archive.CompressText function.
- Added Options parameter for Archive.Content, Archive.Extract, Archive.ExtractFile, Archive.FileList and Archive.GZipDecompress functions.
- Fixed Archive.AddContainer function to allow relative paths in file name parameter.
- Fixed Archive.AddText function to allow relative paths in file name parameter.
- Version 14.0
- Added new parameter for Archive.AddContainer, Archive.AddFile and Archive.AddText to pass a timestamp to use.
- Version 13.2
- Added Archive.BZip2Version, Archive.LZ4Version, Archive.ZLibVersion, Archive.ZStdVersion and Archive.lzmaVersion functions.
- Enabled lz4 and zstd for Archive functions.
- Fixed a problem with Archive.Create and creating 7zip archive.
- Version 13.1
- Added Archive.Create, Archive.AddContainer, Archive.AddFile, Archive.AddText and Archive.Close functions.
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