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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Christian Grobmeier (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (COMPRESS-59) ArchiveEntry could have toString
 methods for formatting header contents
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Christian Grobmeier commented on COMPRESS-59:
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By extending from AbstractArchiveEntry, the JarArchiveEntry would be more ugly.

Currently it is:

public class JarArchiveEntry extends ZipArchiveEntry implements ArchiveEntry

Same is with ZipArchiveEntry:

public class ZipArchiveEntry extends java.util.zip.ZipEntry
    implements ArchiveEntry, Cloneable 

Why not simply implement toString() for the 5 classes we have? I would think that toString() should return all header data.as a string.
This reminds me that we have to override hashCode (if somebody wants to put this archiveentry into a hashmap) and equals() too.


> ArchiveEntry could have toString methods for formatting header contents
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-59
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-59
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I think it would be useful if the ArchiveEntry interface had some methods for formatting the entry information as a String.
> This could then be used to create an Archive scanner to list archive contents, for example.
> There should probably be two methods:
> toShortString() - shows name, type and size only.
> toLongString() - shows all the details.

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