OpenBytes Method
Loads an archive file from a byte array.
Syntax
archivewriter.openBytes(archiveType, archiveBytes_Buffer, [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
Use this method to load an existing archive file from a byte array.
Provide the archive stream via the ArchiveBytes parameter, and pass the archive type in the ArchiveType parameter.
The following archive types are currently supported:
| aftUnknown (0) | It was not possible to establish the type of the archive. |
| 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. |
| aftTar (4) | The archive contains a .tar file. |
| aftTarGzip (5) | The archive contains a .tar.gz file. |
| aftTarBzip2 (6) | The archive contains data in .tar.bz2 format. |
The archive will be kept in memory until written down with Save, SaveStream, or SaveBytes method.