Are symlinks supported?

[saurabhnanda]

It seems that symlinks are extracted as plain text files with the file contents being the actual link. Is this expected? Is the link information anywhere in the EntryDescription? (I tried poking around, but wasn't able to figure this out).

[mrkkrp]

Hmm, interesting. I did not try to use the library with symlinks. IIRC there is no special handling for them. I imagine it is quite doable to add a check using pathIsSymbolicLink https://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory-1.3.8.0/docs/System-Directory.html#v:pathIsSymbolicLink, and then just follow the link before we start reading the contents.

I cannot promise to find time to implement this feature, but I would be happy to review a PR that implements it.

[saurabhnanda]

Actually in my case the ZIP file is being created by some other process. The problem was during unzipping. If you can guide me what to do, I can try my hand at a PR.

[mrkkrp]

Well, if the tool zips that way, there is nothing zip can do to recover the information. Unless I'm misunderstanding something here?

[saurabhnanda]

@mrkkrp this is the standard zip tool. And the standard unzip tool works fine on it (i.e. it preserves the symlinks). So, the zip file does have the symlink information. The question is, how to honor that information from the zip library when calling something like saveEntry.