feature request: extract without temporary file (using pipe)

[arlt]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6.11.1
• Ruby: 2.0.0p648 (OS) 2.5.7p206 (Puppet)
• Distribution: CentOS 7.7
• Module version: 4.4.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

I have a real big file which I must unpack. So I wanted to save space using a pipe to unpack:

archive { 'test':
  ensure           => present,
  path             => '-',
  url              => "https://fqdn.local/test.tar.gz",
  provider         => 'wget',
  download_options => '-q | bash -c "cd / && tar xf -"',
  cleanup          => false,
  creates          => '/path',
}

What are you seeing

Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter path failed on Archive[filename]: archive path must be absolute: - (file:...)

What behaviour did you expect instead

It should accept - as path. I am not sure if it would work together with the cleanup- and creates-settings. It should only download again if /path does not exist.

Maybe one should not misuse download_options but instead use a new parameter extract_pipe=true|false.

Any additional information you'd like to impart

It is a problem like https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-archive#network-files but since it is https instead of nfs I would need this solution.