The ZIP file format has become extremely popular for the distribution and storage of files... The java.util.zip package allows for the programmatic reading and writing of the ZIP and GZIP formats. As you’ll see in this article, the API for reading and writing ZIP files is pretty straightforward to use... In this article, I’ll take you through a Java program that creates of a ZIP file and also walk you through another Java program that unzips the file we created.
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();
// 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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