Classic ASP

Transition from Zip.AppendBd to Zip.AddBd

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendBd method calls with AddBd.

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Classic ASP

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set zip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

' ...
' ...

pathInZip = "example.dat"

set bd = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = bd.LoadFile("c:/someDir/example.dat")

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' The AppendBd method is deprecated:
' AppendBd returns the zip entry object, which is usually not needed.

' entryObj is a Chilkat.ZipEntry
Set entryObj = zip.AppendBd(pathInZip,bd)
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' ...
' ...

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Do the equivalent using AddBd.

' Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
success = zip.AddBd(pathInZip,bd)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
' The newly appended entry is the last one.
set ze = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.ZipEntry")
index = zip.NumEntries - 1
success = zip.EntryAt(index,ze)

%>
</body>
</html>