Context and Problem Statement🔗
Docspell should have support for files that contain the actual files that matter, like zip files and other such things. It should extract its contents automatcially.
Since docspell should never drop or modify user data, the archive file must be present in the database. And it must be possible to download the file unmodified.
On the other hand, files in there need to be text analysed and converted to pdf files.
Decision Outcome🔗
There is currently a table attachment_source which holds references
to "original" files. These are the files as uploaded by the user,
before converted to pdf. Archive files add a subtlety to this: in case
of an archive, an attachment_source is the original (non-archive)
file inside an archive.
The archive file itself will be stored in a separate table attachment_archive.
Example: uploading a files.zip ZIP file containing report.jpg:
attachment_source: report.jpgattachment: report.pdfattachment_archive: files.zip
Archive may contain other archives. Then the inner archives will not be saved. The archive file is extracted recursively, until there is no known archive file found.
Initial Support🔗
Initial support is implemented for ZIP and EML (e-mail files) files.