Any way to create folders in the archive? about node-archiver

[ctalkington]

you can now use the following in v0.8.0:

archive.append(null, { name: 'directory/' });

[shen-lin]

you can now use the following in v0.8.0:

archive.append(null, { name: 'directory/' });

how to fill content into 'directory/ ?

@guanguanqingchao

The 2nd parameter of directory() and the name attribute in the 2nd param of append() can take file path as inputs.

        archive.directory('.../yourfolder', 'directory/yourfoler');
        archive.append(fs.createReadStream('.../yourfile'), { name: 'directory/yourfile' });

[ctalkington]

you would need to create an empty file with the path. something like..

archive.append('', { name: 'my/new/dir/.keep' });

[newmanw]

Thanks! Also is there a way to point at a directory that exists on the file system and have it add that directory full of files to the archive?

Basically this is the only module that I have found that supports streaming dynamically created content as a zip file. However I do also have a few 'static' directories (stuff that exists on the server) that I would like to include in the zip.

[ctalkington]

not at this point in time, mainly because this module was created to assist a grunt task which already handles the file globbing and such. so it was never a key feature, however the audience has grown so it may be considered in a near future version.

[darsain]

I'd definitely need a way how to create empty folders in archives. Have been playing around with tar-stream module which does it by passing a type prop into header object:

var tar = require('tar-stream');
var pack = tar.pack();
pack.entry({ name: 'Dirname', type: 'directory' }, callback);

Would it be possible to support something like that?

Also, I've read in one of the issues that you are planning on adding a .directory() method, but that it will be used to bulk-add files from that particular directory. Is it necessary when you already have .bulk()? Couldn't you just modify it to add files from a directory when string is passed? Wouldn't it be more correct for .directory() to add an empty directory? You know like:

• .file() - adds a file
• .directory() - adds a directory

[ctalkington]

thanks for the feedback. directory was originally bulk but was renamed to make bit more sense. so i could actually make directory do what you mention.

v0.5 is going to contain quite a bit of change. tar archive building will be a wrapper around tar-stream to combine efforts as soon as I get a few PRs committed over there. ill likely split the core zip logic into its own published module soon too. my end goal is have to v0.5 out by the end of Jan.

[ltomes]

archive.append(null, { name: 'directory/' });

Does this still work in the latest versions of node-archiver? I see directory was refactored in 2.1.0.

[mhemrg]

@ltomes Yes. It works with 3.0.0.

[guanguanqingchao]

you can now use the following in v0.8.0:

archive.append(null, { name: 'directory/' });

how to fill content into 'directory/ ?

[tsulatsitamim]

in version 7.0.1, use null create empty file inside the folder