Directory file information missing from scan results

[jdaguil]

I ran a scan over the samples directory in the scancode toolkit. The samples directory file information is missing from the infos results.

I expected to see file information like the following for the directory, but the samples file information entry and corresponding results were completely missing from the json scan results:

    "infos": [
        {
          "type": "directory", 
          "name": "samples", 
          "extension": "", 
          "date": "2015-11-28", 
          "size":, 
          "sha1": "", 
          "md5": "", 
          "files_count": null, 
          "mime_type": "", 
          "file_type": "", 
          "programming_language": "", 
          "is_binary": null, 
          "is_text": null, 
          "is_archive": null, 
          "is_media": null, 
          "is_source": null, 
          "is_script": null
        }
      ], 

I used "scancode_version": "1.6.1"

[pombredanne]

Ok. we never return the directories indeed. Would you want them to be always returned or only based on an option?

[pombredanne]

Also, what about the size and file_counts? these can be (in fact are already behind the scenes) computed all right

[jdaguil]

The file information for other other sub directories under samples is detected (i.e. JGroups, zlib, arch all return file info). However, samples itself did not return any information.

[pombredanne]

The directories are now always returned in the scan. Closing!