Making and Zipping Files on Disk

Hi,

I need to create and deliver a zip file of
various datafiles on disk (within the application
sandbox) and then deliver the file to the user.

Delivering it is no trouble, but what can be
done with a few command line calls from a shell
prompt seems really complicated from within
the server environment.

Should I use the exec-processor, or is there
a better way to work with files?

Thanks,
Hank

Hank Ratzesberger
NEES@UCSB
Institute for Crustal Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
805-893-8042







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Hank, this might be of interest to you:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/processors-zip-unzip

A.

On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:


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Does that work for relative paths? Or only absolute paths? We want to be
be able to pick up a zip file and copy it somewhere else an unzip it
into a new area w/o clobbering another area.

We've got a similar where we need to unpackage a delivery, verify the
contents and make some changes and then zip them up and place them in
another area. I'm currently calling a perl script via execute-processor
but long term I'd like to move more functionality into xpl files.

Also, is it possible to call another zip program like gzip? We have both
here, don't ask why.

claude


Alexander Žaťko wrote:

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