(Android™) Iterate Through Matching ZIP Entries Using EntryMatching and ZipEntry.GetNextMatch

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This example demonstrates how to iterate through ZIP entries matching a wildcard pattern using:

• Zip.EntryMatching to obtain the first matching entry
• ZipEntry.GetNextMatch to advance to subsequent matching entries

The wildcard character * matches zero or more characters. Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP entry path.

The example searches for all entries beneath the docs/ directory.

Suppose the ZIP archive contains:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt
images/logo.png
hello.txt

The wildcard pattern:

docs/*

Matches:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt

Note that ZIP archives may optionally contain separate directory entries. Therefore, the first matching entry may be the directory entry docs/ rather than a file entry.

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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/sample.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, zip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------
    // Find the first ZIP entry matching the wildcard pattern:
    // 
    //     docs/*
    // 
    // Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP path.
    // 
    CkZipEntry entry = new CkZipEntry();

    success = zip.EntryMatching("docs/*",entry);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, "No matching entries found.");
        zip.CloseZip();
        return;
        }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------
    // Iterate through all matching entries.
    // 
    // GetNextMatch updates the same ZipEntry object so that
    // it represents the next matching entry.
    // 
    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 matching entry.
        success = entry.GetNextMatch("docs/*");
        }

    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."
  }
}