create a zip file on the fly using the new "directorylabel" field added in pull request #3412

[bjonnh]

This will depend on whether or not #3412 will be implemented.

That would allow the user to download the hierarchy in a zip file.

I also wonder if this would be possible using rsync.

This was called "Download as zip while preserving directory structure" in 3.6

[pdurbin]

Pull request #3412 was merged so this could, in theory, be implemented, but on upload of a zip we'd need to persist the directory structure. We don't do this right now.

This is feature we had in DVN 3.x. See "Download as zip while preserving directory structure" at "3.6 & 4.0 Feature Comparison" at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ftHM6E4b9Dft_AvA6KTzeklJyLguItz2_0hNAFL8-VM/edit?usp=sharing

[pdurbin]

on upload of a zip we'd need to persist the directory structure. We don't do this right now.

Update! We're discussing file hierarchy (#2249) today and @landreev and I both independently verified that when you upload a zip file, the "directorylabel" column in the database is indeed populated.

Here's the file I uploaded:

data.zip

murphy:tmp pdurbin$ unzip data.zip 
Archive:  data.zip
   creating: folder1/
   creating: folder1/sub1/
 extracting: folder1/sub1/file.txt   
   creating: folder1/sub2/
 extracting: folder1/sub2/file.txt   
   creating: folder2/
   creating: folder2/sub1/
 extracting: folder2/sub1/file.txt   
   creating: folder2/sub2/
 extracting: folder2/sub2/file.txt   
murphy:tmp pdurbin$ 

And here's how it looks in the database:

Here's how the files look in the GUI (I'm on Dataverse 4.9.4):

[pdurbin]

@bjonnh does #5498 capture what you want?

[bjonnh]

Yes!

[pdurbin]

@bjonnh great! #5498 is now in our next sprint so are you ok with closing this issue as a duplicate?