Visual FoxPro

Exclude Multiple Directories When Adding Files to a ZIP

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This example demonstrates how to use the ExcludeDir method to exclude specific directory names when recursively adding files to a ZIP archive.

The ExcludeDir method excludes directories by name. Any directory matching an excluded name is skipped entirely, including all files and subdirectories beneath it.

This is useful for excluding directories such as:

• .git
• node_modules
• bin
• obj
• Temporary or cache directories

Call ExcludeDir once for each directory name to exclude.

Suppose the local filesystem contains:

c:/project/src/main.cpp
c:/project/src/util.cpp
c:/project/bin/app.exe
c:/project/obj/main.obj
c:/project/.git/config
c:/project/node_modules/library/index.js

After excluding bin, obj, .git, and node_modules, only the files beneath src are added to the ZIP archive.

The resulting ZIP archive contains:

project/src/main.cpp
project/src/util.cpp

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnRecurse
LOCAL lnSaveExtraPath
LOCAL lnArchiveOnly
LOCAL lnIncludeHidden
LOCAL lnIncludeSystem

lnSuccess = 0

lnSuccess = 0

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("project.zip")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Exclude several directory names.
* 
* Any directory matching one of these names will be skipped
* during recursive file appending.
loZip.ExcludeDir("bin")
loZip.ExcludeDir("obj")
loZip.ExcludeDir(".git")
loZip.ExcludeDir("node_modules")

* Recursively append all files beneath c:/project.
* 
* Because saveExtraPath = 1, the ZIP paths will
* include "project/" as the leading directory.
lnRecurse = 1
lnSaveExtraPath = 1
lnArchiveOnly = 0
lnIncludeHidden = 1
lnIncludeSystem = 0

lnSuccess = loZip.AppendFilesEx("c:/project",lnRecurse,lnSaveExtraPath,lnArchiveOnly,lnIncludeHidden,lnIncludeSystem)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Write the ZIP archive.
lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "ZIP archive created successfully."

RELEASE loZip