Script to Archive Files Over 1GB | Dataford Interview Questions

Andela Products needs a manifest of oversized files from a CI artifact directory before archiving them. Given file metadata, find every file whose size is strictly greater than 1 GiB.

The archive operation is represented by the returned list of file paths. Preserve the input order so the manifest is deterministic.

Formal Specification

Implement archive_large_files(files), where files is a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains:

path, a unique string representing the file path
sizeBytes, a non-negative integer containing the file size in bytes

Return a list of paths for files larger than 1,073,741,824 bytes, or an empty list when no file qualifies.

Constraints

0 <= len(files) <= 10^5
0 <= files[i]["sizeBytes"] <= 10^15
Every file has a unique non-empty path
Do not modify the input list

Function Signature

def archive_large_files(files):

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