Example: A Universal Decompressor

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public static int main (string[] args) {
		int8[] buffer = null;
		Archive.Read archive = new Archive.Read ();
		archive.support_filter_all ();
		archive.support_format_raw ();

		if (archive.open_filename ("archive.tar.gz", 16384) != Archive.Result.OK) {
				error ("Error: %s (%d)", archive.error_string (), archive.errno ());
		}

		unowned Archive.Entry entry;
		if (archive.next_header (out entry) != Archive.Result.OK) {
				error ("Error: %s (%d)", archive.error_string (), archive.errno ());
		}

		ssize_t size;
		while ((size = archive.read_data (buffer, buffer.length)) > 0) {
				// Write the content of the buffer
		}

		if (archive.close () != Archive.Result.OK) {
				error ("Error: %s (%d)", archive.error_string (), archive.errno ());
		}

		return 0;
}

 valac --pkg libarchive Archive.Read.1.vala

See:

• Archive.Write

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