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Iterate Through ZIP Entries Using EntryAt and ZipEntry.GetNext

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This example demonstrates how to iterate through all entries in a ZIP archive using:

  • Zip.EntryAt to obtain the first entry
  • ZipEntry.GetNext to advance through the remaining entries

The example prints each ZIP entry's stored filename and whether the entry is a file or directory.

This approach is useful when sequentially processing ZIP entries without repeatedly calling EntryAt by index.

Suppose the ZIP archive contains:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
images/logo.png
hello.txt

The example iterates through each entry in the order stored within the ZIP archive.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkZip zip = new CkZip();

    //  Open an existing ZIP archive.
    success = zip.OpenZip("c:/temp/example.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, zip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  A ZIP archive may contain zero entries.
    if (zip.get_NumEntries() == 0) {

        Log.i(TAG, "The ZIP archive is empty.");

        zip.CloseZip();
        return;
        }

    //  ------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Get the first ZIP entry.
    //  
    //  EntryAt(0,entry) initializes the ZipEntry object so that
    //  it represents the first entry in the ZIP archive.
    //  
    CkZipEntry entry = new CkZipEntry();

    success = zip.EntryAt(0,entry);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, zip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  ------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Iterate through all ZIP entries.
    //  
    //  GetNext updates the same ZipEntry object so that it
    //  represents the next entry in the ZIP archive.
    //  
    while ((success == true)) {

        if (entry.get_IsDirectory() == true) {

            Log.i(TAG, "[Directory] " + entry.fileName());

            }
        else {

            Log.i(TAG, "[File] " + entry.fileName());
            }

        //  Advance to the next entry.
        success = entry.GetNext();
        }

    zip.CloseZip();

    Log.i(TAG, "Done.");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}