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# js-untar
Library for extracting tar files in the browser.
## Documentation
Load the module with RequireJS or similar. Module is a function that returns a modified Promise with a progress callback.
This callback is executed every time a file is extracted.
The standard Promise.then method is also called when extraction is done, with all extracted files as argument.
### Example:
define(["untar"], function(untar) {
// Load the source ArrayBuffer from a XMLHttpRequest or any other way.
var sourceBuffer = ...;
untar(sourceBuffer)
.progress(function(extractedFile) {
...
})
.then(function(extractedFiles) {
...
});
});
### File object
The returned file object has the following properties. Most of these are explained in the [Tar wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#File_format).
* name = The full filename (including path and ustar filename prefix).
* mode
* uid
* gid
* size
* modificationTime
* checksum
* type
* linkname
* ustarFormat
* blob A [Blob](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob) object with the contens of the file.
* getObjectUrl()
A unique [ObjectUrl](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/createObjectURL) to the data can be retrieved with this method for easy usage of extracted data in <img> tags etc.
document.getElementById("targetImageElement").src = file.getObjectUrl();
If the .tar file was in the ustar format (which most are), the following properties are also defined:
* version
* uname
* gname
* devmajor
* devminor
* namePrefix