Request: Function to add files from in-memory data#400
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| /// Add a file entry to the archive. | ||
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| /// This function will create a header for a file of correct size, mode, and checksum. |
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This document is not as detailed as the other methods, but I don't know how to make it.
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I am aware that this "PR" is not up to your standard. I just create a PR instead of an issue to better illustrate my feature request. Please consider this a feature request instead of a proper PR. If you have requests for change, feel free to edit this PR directly.
It's quite inconvenient that
tar-rsdoesn't provide a convenient function to quickly add in-memory data to a tar archive as files.Why not
Builder::append_data?Constructing
Headeris too verbose and error-prone. As a consumer of this package, I had to various trials and errors to create a correctHeaderthat would produce a valid tar file that can be parsed by other programs in my Linux machine.Why not
Builder::append_file?This function requires reading a file from the filesystem, but my use case was data stored as
&[u8]in-memory. To write this data to the filesystem then read it would be suboptimal.