bazelbuild
Allow repository_ctx.extract to be told the file type explicitly
Description of the feature request:
I have some zip files that don't have a .zip extension (Python .whl files).
In order to extract them, I have to create a symlink with the .zip extension because the extract() function doesn't allow explicitly specifying the file type.
In comparison, download_and_extract does.
On Linux, this is fairly cheap because I can symlink. On windows, symlinks aren't as easy, though.
In some cases, these files are very large (multiple gigabytes), so I want to avoid having to copy them.
Which category does this issue belong to?
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What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Extract a file with a different extension.
Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
Linux
What is the output of bazel info release?
Bazel 6
If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.
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What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?
Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
Searched all three, didn't find any existing feature request
Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
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This would be part of the repository_ctx API. I'm not sure if thats "external deps" (repository rules are usually related to external stuff in some way) or "rules api" (repository rules are a type of rule object), so I've tagged both for lack of my own understanding
Let's do it, should be a simple change, @rickeylev can you send a PR for this?
Coincidentally, https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/26307 was filed 6 days after this issue was filed, and ended up adding .whl file support in d9634ca. So I think the root problem that author had has been resolved.
The original feature request is still valid though.
I assume this is not being done by rickeylev? I can take this on. But I'll do some refactoring of the code before starting.
