Help to add 7z packing capability

[zEdS15B3GCwq]

Hi,

Seeing how helpful you were in my other discussion thread, I'm asking for your advice regarding one more matter. Instead of the built-in tar or zip support, I'd like to use 7-zip to pack files; more specifically, I want to be able to select a number of files and pack them into multi-volume 7z archives, e.g. 7z a -v200M -mx0 archivename @filelist.

The Alpine container only has a package for 7z (p7zip), so I'm discussing 7z; RAR would be just as good.

My JS skill is elementary, so correct me if I'm wrong in my assumptions below.

I've looked a bit into the User Menu, which, I assume, runs client-side JS. The way I understand things, I could use CloudCmd.TerminalRun.show() with the 7z command, for which I believe I'd need to install a terminal with CC.

However, for reasons, I prefer to restrict CC to no console and no terminal. Is there any other way to run a server-side script, for example using child_process.exec(), besides extending the server-side source code?

I've peeked into https://github.com/cloudcmd/cloudcmd-plugin, but that mentions loading a client-side script, so I'm assuming that's not much different from what I can do with the User Menu.

Any hints how you'd solve this?

[coderaiser]

cloudcmd-plugin is for client side only, but if you don’t want to use terminal (what is very sad, because it feet’s very good to run any cli tool from User Menu), you can up your own web server which will run 7z for you, and run in from cloudcmd-plugin with help of http-request.

[coderaiser]

Hold up, support of cloudcmd-plugin was dropped a couple versions ago in favor of User Menu. Anyways you still can send Ajax-request from it.