A First Pass at a File Archiver
Throughout this chapter, you’ll work through building a library for a tool called filepack. The FilePack library that we build will allow users to create archives of files that can be saved to disk, stored in a database, or sent over the internet. The examples you build as you work through this chapter will only support the programmatic creation and extraction of archives, but you are encouraged to create a complete application around this library as an additional example.
For maximum compatibility with third-party systems and tooling, we’ll store the contents of our files as base64 encoded string data. Base64 encoding is a well-known approach to encoding binary data in plain ASCII text so that it can be handled ...
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