Zip Meets Java - Unzipping Things with Java

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So we can create zip files with Java. Can we extract them? Listing 2 shows an example Java class that can do just that. Let’s cover what’s going on in the class, as it might not be that obvious to the java.util.zip API newcomer.

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
public class ZipUncompressExample
{

   // specify buffer size for extraction
   static final int BUFFER = 2048;

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
     try
     {
       System.out.println("Example of ZIP file decompression.");

       // Specify file to decompress
       String inFileName = "c:\example.zip";
       // Specify destination where file will be unzipped
       String destinationDirectory = "c:\temp\";

       File sourceZipFile = new File(inFileName);
       File unzipDestinationDirectory = new File(destinationDirectory);

       // Open Zip file for reading
       ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(sourceZipFile, ZipFile.OPEN_READ);

       // Create an enumeration of the entries in the zip file
       Enumeration zipFileEntries = zipFile.entries();

       // Process each entry
       while (zipFileEntries.hasMoreElements())
       {
         // grab a zip file entry
         ZipEntry entry = (ZipEntry) zipFileEntries.nextElement();

         String currentEntry = entry.getName();
         System.out.println("Extracting: " + entry);

         File destFile =
           new File(unzipDestinationDirectory, currentEntry);

         // grab file's parent directory structure
         File destinationParent = destFile.getParentFile();

         // create the parent directory structure if needed
         destinationParent.mkdirs();

         // extract file if not a directory
         if (!entry.isDirectory())
         {
           BufferedInputStream is =
             new BufferedInputStream(zipFile.getInputStream(entry));
           int currentByte;
           // establish buffer for writing file
           byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];

           // write the current file to disk
           FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(destFile);
           BufferedOutputStream dest =
           new BufferedOutputStream(fos, BUFFER);

           // read and write until last byte is encountered
           while ((currentByte = is.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1)
           {
             dest.write(data, 0, currentByte);
           }
           dest.flush();
           dest.close();
           is.close();
         }
       }
       zipFile.close();
     }
     catch (IOException ioe)
     {
     ioe.printStackTrace();
     }
   }
}

The ZipUncompressExample class unzips a file called example.zip and extracts it to a destination directory called d:temp. We first open the source zip file. From our ZipFile object, we can use the entires() method to obtain an Enumeration which contains ZipEntry objects. These individual ZipEntry objects represent the entries which make up the Zip file.

I then use a while loop to cycle through the entries of our Zip file. As we process each ZipEntry object, we have to check and see if the zip entry in question has the needed housing directory structure in place. If the needed directories are not created, they are established. We use the getParentFile method of the File class to obtain the parent directory structure. If the current zip entry is not a directory (i.e., a file), we write the file to disk in the corresponding housing directory. This process is continued until each entry in the Zip file is processed.

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