Mock System.IO.Compression.ZipFile

Hello guys,

For one of my project I started to write a basic wrapper around the methods of System.IO.Compression.ZipFile. To achieve that I’m of course using System.IO.Abstractions.

I started to introduce 4 new types IZipFileFactory, ZipFileFactory, MockZipFileFactory, MockZipFileData. Now I would like to have a property ZipFile of type IZipFileFactory in IFileSystem so I can write something like

var fileSystem = new FileSystem();
fileSystem.ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(sourceDirectoryName, destinationArchiveFileName);
...
fileSystem.ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(destinationArchiveFileName, destinationDirectoryName);

Would you like to see a pull request for that feature?

Thanks

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herebebeastiescommented, Sep 13, 2022

We did something like this at the company I work for (will hopefully open source some of this stuff soon).

It’s actually quite nice to be able to take a ZipArchive on one IFileSystem and extract it to another (e.g. take a real ZIP on disk and populate a MockFileSystem with it), so we implemented this as extension methods on FileBase and ZipArchive:

public static ZipArchive CreateZip(this FileBase file, string path);
public static void ExtractToDirectory(this ZipArchive zipArchive, IFileSystem destFs, string destPath);

etc. Note that ZipArchive already works against the Stream APIs instead of files directly, so this is all pretty easy.

The advantage of that is that it works against any IFileSystem implementation (and across them), and that you don’t need to implement this stuff in the IFileSystem implementations themselves.

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herebebeastiescommented, Sep 13, 2022

Or that, with a destination IFileSystem also passed in. Sorry, that was missing in my original, have updated. Anyway, lots of ways to skin this particular cat!

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