SecureBlackbox Lite 2020 Node.js Edition

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Open Method

Opens an archive file.

Syntax

archivereader.open(archiveType, archivePath, [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

Call this method to open an archive file. Provide the archive type via the ArchiveType parameter, and the path via the ArchivePath parameter.

The following archive types (formats) are supported:

aftUnknown (0)Unknown type.
aftZip (1)The archive contains data in ZIP format.
aftGzip (2)The archive file contains data in GZIP format.
aftBzip2 (3)The archive contains BZIP2 data.
aftTarGzip (4)The archive contains a .tar.gz file.
aftTarBzip2 (5)The archive contains data in .tar.bz2 format.

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