rubytorrent devel - Jan 2005 - Extending metainfo class

Hi,

I`ve still posted this comment on comp.lang.ruby and after that I found 
this list ;)

I`ve had some problems with a .torrent file because of unknown fields.
The file was created with: BitComet/0.56

So, I extended the metainfo class like this:


--
Andreas


Index: rubytorrent/rubytorrent/metainfo.rb
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/rubytorrent/rubytorrent/rubytorrent/metainfo.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -r1.4 metainfo.rb
62,63c62,67
<               :ed2k => String
<       s.label :piece_length => "piece length", :name_utf8
=> "name.utf-8"
---
 >               :ed2k => String,
 >               :publisher_url => String,
 >               :publisher_url_utf8 => String
 >       s.label :piece_length => "piece length", :name_utf8
=>
"name.utf-8",
 >               :publisher_url => "publisher-url",
 >               :publisher_url_utf8 => "publisher-url.utf-8"
134c138,139
<               :comment_utf8 => String
---
 >               :comment_utf8 => String,
 >               :torrent_name => String
136c141,142
<               :creation_date => "creation date", :created_by
=>
"created by"
---
 >               :creation_date => "creation date", :created_by
=>
"created by",
 >               :torrent_name => "torrent filename"

Excerpts from Andreas Habel''s mail of 12 Jan 2005
(EST):
> I`ve had some problems with a .torrent file because of unknown fields.
> The file was created with: BitComet/0.56
> 
> So, I extended the metainfo class like this:
Thanks! I''ll incorporate that into CVS. The typedstruct thing is very
strict in terms of parsing, but that was mostly to help my debugging.
One thing on the todo list is to make it ignore unknown fields rather
than dying horribly. :) Either way, good to know what other fields are
out there.

What was the value for the "torrent name" field? Seems a little
redundant to me....

-- 
William <wmorgan-rubytorrent-devel@masanjin.net>

William Morgan wrote:
> 
> What was the value for the "torrent name" field? Seems a little
> redundant to me....
> 
The field contains the path and filename of my local .torrent file what 
was very confusing for me. I`ve downloaded the file again and the field 
was missing. I found out, that Azureus modified the .torrent file and 
added this field when starting the torrent.

Maybe you can use this method for rubytorrent too?