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# yauzl
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/thejoshwolfe/yauzl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/thejoshwolfe/yauzl)
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[![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/thejoshwolfe/yauzl.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/thejoshwolfe/yauzl)
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yet another unzip library for node. For zipping, see
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[yazl](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yazl).
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Design principles:
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* Follow the spec.
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Don't scan for local file headers.
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Read the central directory for file metadata.
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(see [No Streaming Unzip API](#no-streaming-unzip-api)).
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* Don't block the JavaScript thread.
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Use and provide async APIs.
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* Keep memory usage under control.
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Don't attempt to buffer entire files in RAM at once.
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* Never crash (if used properly).
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Don't let malformed zip files bring down client applications who are trying to catch errors.
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* Catch unsafe file names.
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See `validateFileName()`.
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## Usage
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```js
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var yauzl = require("yauzl");
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yauzl.open("path/to/file.zip", {lazyEntries: true}, function(err, zipfile) {
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if (err) throw err;
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zipfile.readEntry();
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zipfile.on("entry", function(entry) {
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if (/\/$/.test(entry.fileName)) {
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// Directory file names end with '/'.
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// Note that entires for directories themselves are optional.
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// An entry's fileName implicitly requires its parent directories to exist.
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zipfile.readEntry();
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} else {
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// file entry
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zipfile.openReadStream(entry, function(err, readStream) {
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if (err) throw err;
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readStream.on("end", function() {
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zipfile.readEntry();
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});
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readStream.pipe(somewhere);
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});
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}
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});
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});
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```
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See also `examples/` for more usage examples.
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## API
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The default for every optional `callback` parameter is:
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```js
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function defaultCallback(err) {
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if (err) throw err;
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}
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```
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### open(path, [options], [callback])
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Calls `fs.open(path, "r")` and reads the `fd` effectively the same as `fromFd()` would.
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`options` may be omitted or `null`. The defaults are `{autoClose: true, lazyEntries: false, decodeStrings: true, validateEntrySizes: true}`.
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`autoClose` is effectively equivalent to:
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```js
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zipfile.once("end", function() {
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zipfile.close();
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});
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```
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`lazyEntries` indicates that entries should be read only when `readEntry()` is called.
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If `lazyEntries` is `false`, `entry` events will be emitted as fast as possible to allow `pipe()`ing
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file data from all entries in parallel.
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This is not recommended, as it can lead to out of control memory usage for zip files with many entries.
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See [issue #22](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/22).
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If `lazyEntries` is `true`, an `entry` or `end` event will be emitted in response to each call to `readEntry()`.
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This allows processing of one entry at a time, and will keep memory usage under control for zip files with many entries.
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`decodeStrings` is the default and causes yauzl to decode strings with `CP437` or `UTF-8` as required by the spec.
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The exact effects of turning this option off are:
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* `zipfile.comment`, `entry.fileName`, and `entry.fileComment` will be `Buffer` objects instead of `String`s.
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* Any Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field will be ignored. See `extraFields`.
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* Automatic file name validation will not be performed. See `validateFileName()`.
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`validateEntrySizes` is the default and ensures that an entry's reported uncompressed size matches its actual uncompressed size.
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This check happens as early as possible, which is either before emitting each `"entry"` event (for entries with no compression),
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or during the `readStream` piping after calling `openReadStream()`.
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See `openReadStream()` for more information on defending against zip bomb attacks.
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The `callback` is given the arguments `(err, zipfile)`.
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An `err` is provided if the End of Central Directory Record cannot be found, or if its metadata appears malformed.
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This kind of error usually indicates that this is not a zip file.
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Otherwise, `zipfile` is an instance of `ZipFile`.
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### fromFd(fd, [options], [callback])
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Reads from the fd, which is presumed to be an open .zip file.
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Note that random access is required by the zip file specification,
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so the fd cannot be an open socket or any other fd that does not support random access.
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`options` may be omitted or `null`. The defaults are `{autoClose: false, lazyEntries: false, decodeStrings: true, validateEntrySizes: true}`.
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See `open()` for the meaning of the options and callback.
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### fromBuffer(buffer, [options], [callback])
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Like `fromFd()`, but reads from a RAM buffer instead of an open file.
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`buffer` is a `Buffer`.
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If a `ZipFile` is acquired from this method,
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it will never emit the `close` event,
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and calling `close()` is not necessary.
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`options` may be omitted or `null`. The defaults are `{lazyEntries: false, decodeStrings: true, validateEntrySizes: true}`.
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See `open()` for the meaning of the options and callback.
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The `autoClose` option is ignored for this method.
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### fromRandomAccessReader(reader, totalSize, [options], [callback])
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This method of reading a zip file allows clients to implement their own back-end file system.
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For example, a client might translate read calls into network requests.
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The `reader` parameter must be of a type that is a subclass of
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[RandomAccessReader](#class-randomaccessreader) that implements the required methods.
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The `totalSize` is a Number and indicates the total file size of the zip file.
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`options` may be omitted or `null`. The defaults are `{autoClose: true, lazyEntries: false, decodeStrings: true, validateEntrySizes: true}`.
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See `open()` for the meaning of the options and callback.
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### dosDateTimeToDate(date, time)
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Converts MS-DOS `date` and `time` data into a JavaScript `Date` object.
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Each parameter is a `Number` treated as an unsigned 16-bit integer.
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Note that this format does not support timezones,
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so the returned object will use the local timezone.
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### validateFileName(fileName)
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Returns `null` or a `String` error message depending on the validity of `fileName`.
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If `fileName` starts with `"/"` or `/[A-Za-z]:\//` or if it contains `".."` path segments or `"\\"`,
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this function returns an error message appropriate for use like this:
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```js
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var errorMessage = yauzl.validateFileName(fileName);
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if (errorMessage != null) throw new Error(errorMessage);
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```
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This function is automatically run for each entry, as long as `decodeStrings` is `true`.
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See `open()` and `Event: "entry"` for more information.
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### Class: ZipFile
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The constructor for the class is not part of the public API.
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Use `open()`, `fromFd()`, `fromBuffer()`, or `fromRandomAccessReader()` instead.
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#### Event: "entry"
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Callback gets `(entry)`, which is an `Entry`.
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See `open()` and `readEntry()` for when this event is emitted.
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If `decodeStrings` is `true`, entries emitted via this event have already passed file name validation.
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See `validateFileName()` and `open()` for more information.
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If `validateEntrySizes` is `true` and this entry's `compressionMethod` is `0` (stored without compression),
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this entry has already passed entry size validation.
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See `open()` for more information.
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#### Event: "end"
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Emitted after the last `entry` event has been emitted.
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See `open()` and `readEntry()` for more info on when this event is emitted.
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#### Event: "close"
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Emitted after the fd is actually closed.
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This is after calling `close()` (or after the `end` event when `autoClose` is `true`),
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and after all stream pipelines created from `openReadStream()` have finished reading data from the fd.
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If this `ZipFile` was acquired from `fromRandomAccessReader()`,
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the "fd" in the previous paragraph refers to the `RandomAccessReader` implemented by the client.
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If this `ZipFile` was acquired from `fromBuffer()`, this event is never emitted.
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#### Event: "error"
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Emitted in the case of errors with reading the zip file.
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(Note that other errors can be emitted from the streams created from `openReadStream()` as well.)
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After this event has been emitted, no further `entry`, `end`, or `error` events will be emitted,
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but the `close` event may still be emitted.
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#### readEntry()
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Causes this `ZipFile` to emit an `entry` or `end` event (or an `error` event).
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This method must only be called when this `ZipFile` was created with the `lazyEntries` option set to `true` (see `open()`).
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When this `ZipFile` was created with the `lazyEntries` option set to `true`,
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`entry` and `end` events are only ever emitted in response to this method call.
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The event that is emitted in response to this method will not be emitted until after this method has returned,
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so it is safe to call this method before attaching event listeners.
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After calling this method, calling this method again before the response event has been emitted will cause undefined behavior.
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Calling this method after the `end` event has been emitted will cause undefined behavior.
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Calling this method after calling `close()` will cause undefined behavior.
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#### openReadStream(entry, [options], callback)
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`entry` must be an `Entry` object from this `ZipFile`.
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`callback` gets `(err, readStream)`, where `readStream` is a `Readable Stream` that provides the file data for this entry.
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If this zipfile is already closed (see `close()`), the `callback` will receive an `err`.
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`options` may be omitted or `null`, and has the following defaults:
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```js
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{
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decompress: entry.isCompressed() ? true : null,
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decrypt: null,
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start: 0, // actually the default is null, see below
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end: entry.compressedSize, // actually the default is null, see below
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}
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```
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If the entry is compressed (with a supported compression method),
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and the `decompress` option is `true` (or omitted),
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the read stream provides the decompressed data.
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Omitting the `decompress` option is what most clients should do.
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The `decompress` option must be `null` (or omitted) when the entry is not compressed (see `isCompressed()`),
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and either `true` (or omitted) or `false` when the entry is compressed.
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Specifying `decompress: false` for a compressed entry causes the read stream
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to provide the raw compressed file data without going through a zlib inflate transform.
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If the entry is encrypted (see `isEncrypted()`), clients may want to avoid calling `openReadStream()` on the entry entirely.
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Alternatively, clients may call `openReadStream()` for encrypted entries and specify `decrypt: false`.
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If the entry is also compressed, clients must *also* specify `decompress: false`.
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Specifying `decrypt: false` for an encrypted entry causes the read stream to provide the raw, still-encrypted file data.
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(This data includes the 12-byte header described in the spec.)
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The `decrypt` option must be `null` (or omitted) for non-encrypted entries, and `false` for encrypted entries.
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Omitting the `decrypt` option (or specifying it as `null`) for an encrypted entry
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will result in the `callback` receiving an `err`.
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This default behavior is so that clients not accounting for encrypted files aren't surprised by bogus file data.
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The `start` (inclusive) and `end` (exclusive) options are byte offsets into this entry's file data,
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and can be used to obtain part of an entry's file data rather than the whole thing.
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If either of these options are specified and non-`null`,
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then the above options must be used to obain the file's raw data.
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Speficying `{start: 0, end: entry.compressedSize}` will result in the complete file,
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which is effectively the default values for these options,
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but note that unlike omitting the options, when you specify `start` or `end` as any non-`null` value,
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the above requirement is still enforced that you must also pass the appropriate options to get the file's raw data.
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It's possible for the `readStream` provided to the `callback` to emit errors for several reasons.
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For example, if zlib cannot decompress the data, the zlib error will be emitted from the `readStream`.
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Two more error cases (when `validateEntrySizes` is `true`) are if the decompressed data has too many
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or too few actual bytes compared to the reported byte count from the entry's `uncompressedSize` field.
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yauzl notices this false information and emits an error from the `readStream`
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after some number of bytes have already been piped through the stream.
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This check allows clients to trust the `uncompressedSize` field in `Entry` objects.
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Guarding against [zip bomb](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb) attacks can be accomplished by
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doing some heuristic checks on the size metadata and then watching out for the above errors.
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Such heuristics are outside the scope of this library,
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but enforcing the `uncompressedSize` is implemented here as a security feature.
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It is possible to destroy the `readStream` before it has piped all of its data.
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To do this, call `readStream.destroy()`.
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You must `unpipe()` the `readStream` from any destination before calling `readStream.destroy()`.
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If this zipfile was created using `fromRandomAccessReader()`, the `RandomAccessReader` implementation
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must provide readable streams that implement a `.destroy()` method (see `randomAccessReader._readStreamForRange()`)
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in order for calls to `readStream.destroy()` to work in this context.
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#### close()
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Causes all future calls to `openReadStream()` to fail,
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and closes the fd after all streams created by `openReadStream()` have emitted their `end` events.
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If the `autoClose` option is set to `true` (see `open()`),
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this function will be called automatically effectively in response to this object's `end` event.
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If the `lazyEntries` option is set to `false` (see `open()`) and this object's `end` event has not been emitted yet,
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this function causes undefined behavior.
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If the `lazyEntries` option is set to `true`,
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you can call this function instead of calling `readEntry()` to abort reading the entries of a zipfile.
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It is safe to call this function multiple times; after the first call, successive calls have no effect.
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This includes situations where the `autoClose` option effectively calls this function for you.
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#### isOpen
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`Boolean`. `true` until `close()` is called; then it's `false`.
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#### entryCount
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`Number`. Total number of central directory records.
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#### comment
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`String`. Always decoded with `CP437` per the spec.
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If `decodeStrings` is `false` (see `open()`), this field is the undecoded `Buffer` instead of a decoded `String`.
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### Class: Entry
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Objects of this class represent Central Directory Records.
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Refer to the zipfile specification for more details about these fields.
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These fields are of type `Number`:
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* `versionMadeBy`
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* `versionNeededToExtract`
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* `generalPurposeBitFlag`
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* `compressionMethod`
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* `lastModFileTime` (MS-DOS format, see `getLastModDateTime`)
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* `lastModFileDate` (MS-DOS format, see `getLastModDateTime`)
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* `crc32`
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* `compressedSize`
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* `uncompressedSize`
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* `fileNameLength` (bytes)
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* `extraFieldLength` (bytes)
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* `fileCommentLength` (bytes)
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* `internalFileAttributes`
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* `externalFileAttributes`
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* `relativeOffsetOfLocalHeader`
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#### fileName
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`String`.
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Following the spec, the bytes for the file name are decoded with
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`UTF-8` if `generalPurposeBitFlag & 0x800`, otherwise with `CP437`.
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Alternatively, this field may be populated from the Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field
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(see `extraFields`).
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This field is automatically validated by `validateFileName()` before yauzl emits an "entry" event.
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If this field would contain unsafe characters, yauzl emits an error instead of an entry.
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If `decodeStrings` is `false` (see `open()`), this field is the undecoded `Buffer` instead of a decoded `String`.
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Therefore, `generalPurposeBitFlag` and any Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field are ignored.
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Furthermore, no automatic file name validation is performed for this file name.
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#### extraFields
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`Array` with each entry in the form `{id: id, data: data}`,
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where `id` is a `Number` and `data` is a `Buffer`.
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This library looks for and reads the ZIP64 Extended Information Extra Field (0x0001)
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in order to support ZIP64 format zip files.
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This library also looks for and reads the Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field (0x7075)
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in order to support some zipfiles that use it instead of General Purpose Bit 8
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to convey `UTF-8` file names.
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When the field is identified and verified to be reliable (see the zipfile spec),
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the the file name in this field is stored in the `fileName` property,
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and the file name in the central directory record for this entry is ignored.
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Note that when `decodeStrings` is false, all Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Fields are ignored.
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None of the other fields are considered significant by this library.
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Fields that this library reads are left unalterned in the `extraFields` array.
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#### fileComment
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`String` decoded with the charset indicated by `generalPurposeBitFlag & 0x800` as with the `fileName`.
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(The Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field has no effect on the charset used for this field.)
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If `decodeStrings` is `false` (see `open()`), this field is the undecoded `Buffer` instead of a decoded `String`.
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Prior to yauzl version 2.7.0, this field was erroneously documented as `comment` instead of `fileComment`.
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For compatibility with any code that uses the field name `comment`,
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yauzl creates an alias field named `comment` which is identical to `fileComment`.
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#### getLastModDate()
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|
||
|
Effectively implemented as:
|
||
|
|
||
|
```js
|
||
|
return dosDateTimeToDate(this.lastModFileDate, this.lastModFileTime);
|
||
|
```
|
||
|
|
||
|
#### isEncrypted()
|
||
|
|
||
|
Returns is this entry encrypted with "Traditional Encryption".
|
||
|
Effectively implemented as:
|
||
|
|
||
|
```js
|
||
|
return (this.generalPurposeBitFlag & 0x1) !== 0;
|
||
|
```
|
||
|
|
||
|
See `openReadStream()` for the implications of this value.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Note that "Strong Encryption" is not supported, and will result in an `"error"` event emitted from the `ZipFile`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
#### isCompressed()
|
||
|
|
||
|
Effectively implemented as:
|
||
|
|
||
|
```js
|
||
|
return this.compressionMethod === 8;
|
||
|
```
|
||
|
|
||
|
See `openReadStream()` for the implications of this value.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Class: RandomAccessReader
|
||
|
|
||
|
This class is meant to be subclassed by clients and instantiated for the `fromRandomAccessReader()` function.
|
||
|
|
||
|
An example implementation can be found in `test/test.js`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
#### randomAccessReader._readStreamForRange(start, end)
|
||
|
|
||
|
Subclasses *must* implement this method.
|
||
|
|
||
|
`start` and `end` are Numbers and indicate byte offsets from the start of the file.
|
||
|
`end` is exclusive, so `_readStreamForRange(0x1000, 0x2000)` would indicate to read `0x1000` bytes.
|
||
|
`end - start` will always be at least `1`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
This method should return a readable stream which will be `pipe()`ed into another stream.
|
||
|
It is expected that the readable stream will provide data in several chunks if necessary.
|
||
|
If the readable stream provides too many or too few bytes, an error will be emitted.
|
||
|
(Note that `validateEntrySizes` has no effect on this check,
|
||
|
because this is a low-level API that should behave correctly regardless of the contents of the file.)
|
||
|
Any errors emitted on the readable stream will be handled and re-emitted on the client-visible stream
|
||
|
(returned from `zipfile.openReadStream()`) or provided as the `err` argument to the appropriate callback
|
||
|
(for example, for `fromRandomAccessReader()`).
|
||
|
|
||
|
The returned stream *must* implement a method `.destroy()`
|
||
|
if you call `readStream.destroy()` on streams you get from `openReadStream()`.
|
||
|
If you never call `readStream.destroy()`, then streams returned from this method do not need to implement a method `.destroy()`.
|
||
|
`.destroy()` should abort any streaming that is in progress and clean up any associated resources.
|
||
|
`.destroy()` will only be called after the stream has been `unpipe()`d from its destination.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Note that the stream returned from this method might not be the same object that is provided by `openReadStream()`.
|
||
|
The stream returned from this method might be `pipe()`d through one or more filter streams (for example, a zlib inflate stream).
|
||
|
|
||
|
#### randomAccessReader.read(buffer, offset, length, position, callback)
|
||
|
|
||
|
Subclasses may implement this method.
|
||
|
The default implementation uses `createReadStream()` to fill the `buffer`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
This method should behave like `fs.read()`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
#### randomAccessReader.close(callback)
|
||
|
|
||
|
Subclasses may implement this method.
|
||
|
The default implementation is effectively `setImmediate(callback);`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
`callback` takes parameters `(err)`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
This method is called once the all streams returned from `_readStreamForRange()` have ended,
|
||
|
and no more `_readStreamForRange()` or `read()` requests will be issued to this object.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## How to Avoid Crashing
|
||
|
|
||
|
When a malformed zipfile is encountered, the default behavior is to crash (throw an exception).
|
||
|
If you want to handle errors more gracefully than this,
|
||
|
be sure to do the following:
|
||
|
|
||
|
* Provide `callback` parameters where they are allowed, and check the `err` parameter.
|
||
|
* Attach a listener for the `error` event on any `ZipFile` object you get from `open()`, `fromFd()`, `fromBuffer()`, or `fromRandomAccessReader()`.
|
||
|
* Attach a listener for the `error` event on any stream you get from `openReadStream()`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Minor version updates to yauzl will not add any additional requirements to this list.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Limitations
|
||
|
|
||
|
### No Streaming Unzip API
|
||
|
|
||
|
Due to the design of the .zip file format, it's impossible to interpret a .zip file from start to finish
|
||
|
(such as from a readable stream) without sacrificing correctness.
|
||
|
The Central Directory, which is the authority on the contents of the .zip file, is at the end of a .zip file, not the beginning.
|
||
|
A streaming API would need to either buffer the entire .zip file to get to the Central Directory before interpreting anything
|
||
|
(defeating the purpose of a streaming interface), or rely on the Local File Headers which are interspersed through the .zip file.
|
||
|
However, the Local File Headers are explicitly denounced in the spec as being unreliable copies of the Central Directory,
|
||
|
so trusting them would be a violation of the spec.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Any library that offers a streaming unzip API must make one of the above two compromises,
|
||
|
which makes the library either dishonest or nonconformant (usually the latter).
|
||
|
This library insists on correctness and adherence to the spec, and so does not offer a streaming API.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Here is a way to create a spec-conformant .zip file using the `zip` command line program (Info-ZIP)
|
||
|
available in most unix-like environments, that is (nearly) impossible to parse correctly with a streaming parser:
|
||
|
|
||
|
```
|
||
|
$ echo -ne '\x50\x4b\x07\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' > file.txt
|
||
|
$ zip -q0 - file.txt | cat > out.zip
|
||
|
```
|
||
|
|
||
|
This .zip file contains a single file entry that uses General Purpose Bit 3,
|
||
|
which means the Local File Header doesn't know the size of the file.
|
||
|
Any streaming parser that encounters this situation will either immediately fail,
|
||
|
or attempt to search for the Data Descriptor after the file's contents.
|
||
|
The file's contents is a sequence of 16-bytes crafted to exactly mimic a valid Data Descriptor for an empty file,
|
||
|
which will fool any parser that gets this far into thinking that the file is empty rather than containing 16-bytes.
|
||
|
What follows the file's real contents is the file's real Data Descriptor,
|
||
|
which will likely cause some kind of signature mismatch error for a streaming parser (if one hasn't occurred already).
|
||
|
|
||
|
By using General Purpose Bit 3 (and compression method 0),
|
||
|
it's possible to create arbitrarily ambiguous .zip files that
|
||
|
distract parsers with file contents that contain apparently valid .zip file metadata.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Limitted ZIP64 Support
|
||
|
|
||
|
For ZIP64, only zip files smaller than `8PiB` are supported,
|
||
|
not the full `16EiB` range that a 64-bit integer should be able to index.
|
||
|
This is due to the JavaScript Number type being an IEEE 754 double precision float.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Node.js `fs` module probably has this same limitation.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### ZIP64 Extensible Data Sector Is Ignored
|
||
|
|
||
|
The spec does not allow zip file creators to put arbitrary data here,
|
||
|
but rather reserves its use for PKWARE and mentions something about Z390.
|
||
|
This doesn't seem useful to expose in this library, so it is ignored.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### No Multi-Disk Archive Support
|
||
|
|
||
|
This library does not support multi-disk zip files.
|
||
|
The multi-disk fields in the zipfile spec were intended for a zip file to span multiple floppy disks,
|
||
|
which probably never happens now.
|
||
|
If the "number of this disk" field in the End of Central Directory Record is not `0`,
|
||
|
the `open()`, `fromFd()`, `fromBuffer()`, or `fromRandomAccessReader()` `callback` will receive an `err`.
|
||
|
By extension the following zip file fields are ignored by this library and not provided to clients:
|
||
|
|
||
|
* Disk where central directory starts
|
||
|
* Number of central directory records on this disk
|
||
|
* Disk number where file starts
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Limited Encryption Handling
|
||
|
|
||
|
You can detect when a file entry is encrypted with "Traditional Encryption" via `isEncrypted()`,
|
||
|
but yauzl will not help you decrypt it.
|
||
|
See `openReadStream()`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If a zip file contains file entries encrypted with "Strong Encryption", yauzl emits an error.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If the central directory is encrypted or compressed, yauzl emits an error.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Local File Headers Are Ignored
|
||
|
|
||
|
Many unzip libraries mistakenly read the Local File Header data in zip files.
|
||
|
This data is officially defined to be redundant with the Central Directory information,
|
||
|
and is not to be trusted.
|
||
|
Aside from checking the signature, yauzl ignores the content of the Local File Header.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### No CRC-32 Checking
|
||
|
|
||
|
This library provides the `crc32` field of `Entry` objects read from the Central Directory.
|
||
|
However, this field is not used for anything in this library.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### versionNeededToExtract Is Ignored
|
||
|
|
||
|
The field `versionNeededToExtract` is ignored,
|
||
|
because this library doesn't support the complete zip file spec at any version,
|
||
|
|
||
|
### No Support For Obscure Compression Methods
|
||
|
|
||
|
Regarding the `compressionMethod` field of `Entry` objects,
|
||
|
only method `0` (stored with no compression)
|
||
|
and method `8` (deflated) are supported.
|
||
|
Any of the other 15 official methods will cause the `openReadStream()` `callback` to receive an `err`.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Data Descriptors Are Ignored
|
||
|
|
||
|
There may or may not be Data Descriptor sections in a zip file.
|
||
|
This library provides no support for finding or interpreting them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### Archive Extra Data Record Is Ignored
|
||
|
|
||
|
There may or may not be an Archive Extra Data Record section in a zip file.
|
||
|
This library provides no support for finding or interpreting it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
### No Language Encoding Flag Support
|
||
|
|
||
|
Zip files officially support charset encodings other than CP437 and UTF-8,
|
||
|
but the zip file spec does not specify how it works.
|
||
|
This library makes no attempt to interpret the Language Encoding Flag.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Change History
|
||
|
|
||
|
* 2.9.1
|
||
|
* Remove `console.log()` accidentally introduced in 2.9.0. [issue #64](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/64)
|
||
|
* 2.9.0
|
||
|
* Throw an exception if `readEntry()` is called without `lazyEntries:true`. Previously this caused undefined behavior. [issue #63](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/63)
|
||
|
* 2.8.0
|
||
|
* Added option `validateEntrySizes`. [issue #53](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/53)
|
||
|
* Added `examples/promises.js`
|
||
|
* Added ability to read raw file data via `decompress` and `decrypt` options. [issue #11](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/11), [issue #38](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/38), [pull #39](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/pull/39)
|
||
|
* Added `start` and `end` options to `openReadStream()`. [issue #38](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/38)
|
||
|
* 2.7.0
|
||
|
* Added option `decodeStrings`. [issue #42](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/42)
|
||
|
* Fixed documentation for `entry.fileComment` and added compatibility alias. [issue #47](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/47)
|
||
|
* 2.6.0
|
||
|
* Support Info-ZIP Unicode Path Extra Field, used by WinRAR for Chinese file names. [issue #33](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/33)
|
||
|
* 2.5.0
|
||
|
* Ignore malformed Extra Field that is common in Android .apk files. [issue #31](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/31)
|
||
|
* 2.4.3
|
||
|
* Fix crash when parsing malformed Extra Field buffers. [issue #31](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/31)
|
||
|
* 2.4.2
|
||
|
* Remove .npmignore and .travis.yml from npm package.
|
||
|
* 2.4.1
|
||
|
* Fix error handling.
|
||
|
* 2.4.0
|
||
|
* Add ZIP64 support. [issue #6](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/6)
|
||
|
* Add `lazyEntries` option. [issue #22](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/22)
|
||
|
* Add `readStream.destroy()` method. [issue #26](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/26)
|
||
|
* Add `fromRandomAccessReader()`. [issue #14](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/14)
|
||
|
* Add `examples/unzip.js`.
|
||
|
* 2.3.1
|
||
|
* Documentation updates.
|
||
|
* 2.3.0
|
||
|
* Check that `uncompressedSize` is correct, or else emit an error. [issue #13](https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl/issues/13)
|
||
|
* 2.2.1
|
||
|
* Update dependencies.
|
||
|
* 2.2.0
|
||
|
* Update dependencies.
|
||
|
* 2.1.0
|
||
|
* Remove dependency on `iconv`.
|
||
|
* 2.0.3
|
||
|
* Fix crash when trying to read a 0-byte file.
|
||
|
* 2.0.2
|
||
|
* Fix event behavior after errors.
|
||
|
* 2.0.1
|
||
|
* Fix bug with using `iconv`.
|
||
|
* 2.0.0
|
||
|
* Initial release.
|