Interface: UnzipFile

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Interface: UnzipFile

Streaming file extraction from ZIP archives

Properties

compression

compression: number

The compression format for the data stream. This number is determined by the spec in PKZIP's APPNOTE.txt, section 4.4.5. For example, 0 = no compression, 8 = deflate, 14 = LZMA. If start() is called but there is no decompression stream available for this method, start() will throw.


name

name: string

The name of the file


ondata

ondata: AsyncFlateStreamHandler

The handler to call whenever data is available


originalSize?

optional originalSize?: number

The original size of the file. Will not be present for archives created in a streaming fashion.


size?

optional size?: number

The compressed size of the file. Will not be present for archives created in a streaming fashion.


terminate

terminate: AsyncTerminable

A method to terminate any internal workers used by the stream. ondata will not be called any further.

Methods

start()

start(): void

Starts reading from the stream. Calling this function will always enable this stream, but ocassionally the stream will be enabled even without this being called.

Returns

void