Hi Christian,

Yes, that feature works fine in the latest snapshot.  Thank you.  I'm wondering if an email to nvd@nist.gov might encourage them to include filenames in all their archives.

And while you're poking around the BaseX archive stuff ... would you want to set the Database Resource Properties INPUTSIZE to something other than "0 b" when the INPUTPATH is an archive?

Thanks again,
RG

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:49 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
A new stable snapshot is available [1]. In the updated version, all
corner cases should be taken into consideration (such as gzip archive
with missing file suffix in the file name).

Hope this helps,
Christian

[1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/



On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:52 AM Christian Grün
<christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> > I just wanted to use https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/json/cve/1.0/nvdcve-1.0-recent.json.gz with basexgui.  basexgui doesn't seem to process the archive correctly.
>
> I got it. So you were choosing JSON as input format, and the archive
> input was not chosen for import.
>
> The challenge seems to be that the filename is not stored inside this
> particular .gz archive, so the ".json" substring in the original file
> is the only hint that the compressed file is a json file. This is
> different for ZIP archives, in which filenames must be stored inside
> the archive (in .gz archives this is optional).
>
> By default, we thus assume that the input of .gz archives is XML. I’ll
> see if/how we can find a solution for this, and if we the input format
> choice can be utilized to correctly interpret the file contents.
>
> > P.S.:  Regarding GitHub issues...  I know how to search those.  How do I search past mailman threads?
>
> You can search via the basex-talk mail archive (see the link on our
> web site [1]). Classical search engines will give you valuable results
> from StackOverflow and other sites.
>
> Best,
> Christian
>
> [1] http://basex.org/about/open-source/
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:53 PM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Rick,
> >>
> >>> Would've filed an issue, but the request is to post here first.  (?)
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks. Many GitHub issues in the past were no bugs, but misunderstandings, so we are asking users to write to the list first.
> >>
> >>> Using version 9.1 BaseX app, a GZIP archive of a JSON database can't be used to properly create a database.  Interestingly, a ZIP archive works fine.
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you really want to create a BaseX database from a "JSON database"? If yes, which format has this database?
> >>
> >> Or does your archive contain a set of (tarred) JSON files, which you would like to import in BaseX as XML? Did you try to rename your file suffix to .tgz?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Christian
> >>
> >>
> >>