http://sourceforge.net/projects/jazzlib/
Java comes with “java.util.zip” library to perform data compression in ZIp format. The overall concept is quite straightforward.
- Read file with “FileInputStream”
- Add the file name to “ZipEntry” and output it to “ZipOutputStream“
1. Simple ZIP example
Read a file “C:\spy.log” and compress it into a zip file – “C:\MyFile.zip“.
package com.mkyong.zip;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
try{
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("C:\MyFile.zip");
ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(fos);
ZipEntry ze= new ZipEntry("spy.log");
zos.putNextEntry(ze);
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("C:\spy.log");
int len;
while ((len = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
zos.write(buffer, 0, len);
}
in.close();
zos.closeEntry();
//remember close it
zos.close();
System.out.println("Done");
}catch(IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
2. Advance ZIP example – Recursively
Read all files from folder “C:\testzip” and compress it into a zip file – “C:\MyFile.zip“. It will recursively zip a directory as well.
package com.mkyong.zip;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
public class AppZip
{
List<String> fileList;
private static final String OUTPUT_ZIP_FILE = "C:\MyFile.zip";
private static final String SOURCE_FOLDER = "C:\testzip";
AppZip(){
fileList = new ArrayList<String>();
}
public static void main( String[] args )
{
AppZip appZip = new AppZip();
appZip.generateFileList(new File(SOURCE_FOLDER));
appZip.zipIt(OUTPUT_ZIP_FILE);
}
/**
* Zip it
* @param zipFile output ZIP file location
*/
public void zipIt(String zipFile){
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
try{
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(zipFile);
ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(fos);
System.out.println("Output to Zip : " + zipFile);
for(String file : this.fileList){
System.out.println("File Added : " + file);
ZipEntry ze= new ZipEntry(file);
zos.putNextEntry(ze);
FileInputStream in =
new FileInputStream(SOURCE_FOLDER + File.separator + file);
int len;
while ((len = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
zos.write(buffer, 0, len);
}
in.close();
}
zos.closeEntry();
//remember close it
zos.close();
System.out.println("Done");
}catch(IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Traverse a directory and get all files,
* and add the file into fileList
* @param node file or directory
*/
public void generateFileList(File node){
//add file only
if(node.isFile()){
fileList.add(generateZipEntry(node.getAbsoluteFile().toString()));
}
if(node.isDirectory()){
String[] subNote = node.list();
for(String filename : subNote){
generateFileList(new File(node, filename));
}
}
}
/**
* Format the file path for zip
* @param file file path
* @return Formatted file path
*/
private String generateZipEntry(String file){
return file.substring(SOURCE_FOLDER.length()+1, file.length());
}
}
Output
Output to Zip : C:MyFile.zip File Added : pdfJava-Interview.pdf File Added : spylogspy.log File Added : utf-encoded.txt File Added : utf.txt Done
Follow Up
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