node-archiver support appending to existing archives

this maybe be moved to v0.7 but the plan is to allow one to import an existing stream that contains zip data to be appended to.

Feb 18 '13 22:02 ctalkington

A really nice feature would be to be able to clone an Archiver instance. The use case for this would be if you are dynamically generating archives where most of the files are constant, but some change. You'd append the constant ones initially, then every time a new archive needed to be generated, you'd clone it and append the changed files.

Nov 13 '13 23:11 alecmocatta

just not sure how this would function. would have to store and pull from buffers vs streaming. that could be quite a task.

Nov 14 '13 17:11 ctalkington

Hi! I would really benefit from this feature, just wondering how soon this would be implemented if it's still in plans?

Jun 22 '14 17:06 andreywix

this should be possible in a few months time once compress-commons gets import/parse ability. still exploring potential implementation ideas.

Aug 24 '14 12:08 ctalkington

Sounds like a cool idea. I don't need it but :+1: anyway!

Oct 26 '14 18:10 jimmywarting

Is there any update or workaround for this? I was hoping I could abandon adm-zip and use node-archiver instead but the lack of appending files to an existing zip archive is currently stopping me from doing so.

Oct 06 '15 00:10 alocher

:+1: This would be great! Would it also be possible to replace existing files in the zip?

Dec 12 '15 03:12 caesar

+1

Dec 27 '15 12:12 dcrockwell

+1

Feb 24 '16 14:02 orangewise

+1

Nov 20 '16 03:11 lcolman

+1

Feb 01 '17 13:02 sangoon

I also would ,like to avoid the adm-zip issue, see https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/issues/186

May 30 '17 14:05 DrYSG

i think the fastest path to doing something like this would be use a library that unzips and then having an adapter that converts it to archiver methods. im not sure if this will be included in archiver just yet but im happy to include an example in the repo if someone comes up with a solution for time being.

Jun 17 '17 17:06 ctalkington

hi sorry if its already addressed, but just wanted to confirm, if its possible to now update a existing zip files with new files and keep existing ones as it is.

Thanks