TTALE-13 (support for RAR)

[twogee]

IMHO, RAR could be treated as a kind of WAR, couldn't it?

[jesper.pedersen]

Sort of, yes.

You can see packaging requirements here - http://www.ironjacamar.org/doc/userguide/1.1/en-US/html/ch05.html#packagingrequirements

Note, that a lot of .rar archives package .class files directly in the .rar/ - wrong, but what can you do ? Well, other than flag it. TTALE should consider these archives though.

[twogee]

WarArchive does not care where it finds .class files, so it is suitable for the task.

[jesper.pedersen]

I meant that the archive checks should follow the classloader semantics defined in the various specs, and if possible take vendor extensions into account.

[twogee]

Oops, I meant WarScanner in my previous post... which results in RAR being treated as a WarArchive.

What you discuss sounds like a suitable ClassLoaderStructure, which is of course relevant, but outside the scope from my point of view.

[jesper.pedersen]

Eh, what ? .rar files shouldn't be picked up by the WarScanner. The classloading semantics is different.

[twogee]

Why not? AFAICS Scanners care only about archive structure, classloading semantics is of interest for Reports extending CLSReport, and by extension, for relevant ClassLoaderStructures.

Did I miss something?