Hi DM,

Today I was using the Archive class to extract exactly one file from a zip file, and I'm a little confused on the exception throwing behavior regarding the max_files parameter. When calling extract(), I gave it a filename pattern and expected exactly 1 file to be extracted, so I also gave a max_files argument as 1. It extracted the one file, but it threw an exception with the error "Error: maximum number of files (1) extracted (after extracting 1 item successfully)".

Should that be an error condition to throw an exception? I expected 1 file to be extracted, and that file was extracted successfully. If I specify max_files as 2, then it doesn't throw an exception.

Nightfox

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Re: Archive.extract() with max_files parameter
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Aug 02 2022 09:29 am

Hi DM,

Today I was using the Archive class to extract exactly one file from a zip file, and I'm a little confused on the exception throwing behavior regarding the max_files parameter. When calling extract(), I gave it a filename pattern and expected exactly 1 file to be extracted, so I also gave a max_files argument as 1. It extracted the one file, but it threw an exception with the error "Error: maximum number of files (1) extracted (after extracting 1 item successfully)".

Should that be an error condition to throw an exception? I expected 1 file to be extracted, and that file was extracted successfully. If I specify max_files as 2, then it doesn't throw an exception.

I can see how that would be surprising behavior. I just committed a change. Let me know how that works for you.
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Re: Archive.extract() with max_files parameter
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Aug 02 2022 05:20 pm

a filename pattern and expected exactly 1 file to be extracted, so I
also gave a max_files argument as 1. It extracted the one file, but
it threw an exception with the error "Error: maximum number of files
(1) extracted (after extracting 1 item successfully)".

I can see how that would be surprising behavior. I just committed a change. Let me know how that works for you.

I've updated, and now it doesn't throw an exception for this case. Thanks.

Nightfox

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