The TarInputStream reads a UNIX tar archive as an InputStream. methods are provided to position at each successive
entry in the archive, and the read each entry as a normal input stream using read().
Kerry Menzel Contributed the code to support file sizes greater than 2GB (longs versus ints).
TarInputStream.EntryFactory
This interface is provided, with the method setEntryFactory(), to allow the programmer to have their own TarEntry
subclass instantiated for the entries return from getNextEntry().
Get the available data that can be read from the current entry in the archive. This does not indicate how much
data is left in the entire archive, only in the current entry. This value is determined from the entry's size
header field and the amount of data already read from the current entry.
public long skip(long numToSkip)
throws IOException
Skip bytes in the input buffer. This skips bytes in the current entry's data, not the entire archive, and will
stop at the end of the current entry's data if the number to skip extends beyond that point.
Get the number of bytes into the current TarEntry. This method returns the number of bytes that have been read
from the current TarEntry's data.
getStreamPosition
public long getStreamPosition()
Get the number of bytes into the stream we are currently at. This method accounts for the blocking stream that
tar uses, so it represents the actual position in input stream, as opposed to the place where the tar archive
parsing is.
Get the next entry in this tar archive. This will skip over any remaining data in the current entry, if there is
one, and place the input stream at the header of the next entry, and read the header and instantiate a new
TarEntry from the header bytes and return that entry. If there are no more entries in the archive, null will be
returned to indicate that the end of the archive has been reached.
public int read(byte[] buf,
int offset,
int numToRead)
throws IOException
Reads bytes from the current tar archive entry.
This method is aware of the boundaries of the current entry in the archive and will deal with them as if they
were this stream's start and EOF.