Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Component: Archive

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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%).

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.
Version 12.1
- Changed Archive functions to enable UTF-8 support by default, so asian characters work well.
Version 11.5
- Fixed an issue with Archive.FileList function not picking up file names on Windows due to text encoding issue.