Java

Create Zip in a BinData Object

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Recursively appends files in a directory tree and writes a zip archive into a Chilkat BinData object. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.BinData;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Zip;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Zip zip = new Zip();

        // Initialize the zip object.  Because we will never actually write a zip file to the filesystem,
        // the filepath passed to NewZip does not matter.
        try {
            zip.newZip("x.zip");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Append a directory tree.  The call to AppendFiles does
        // not read the file contents or append them to the zip
        // object in memory.  It simply appends references
        // to the files so that when WriteBd, WriteZip, or WriteZipAndClose
        // is called, the referenced files are streamed and compressed
        // into the .zip output file (or BinData object).

        boolean recurse = true;
        try {
            zip.appendFiles("c:/temp/a/*", recurse);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Write the zip archive into the bdZip object.
        BinData bdZip = new BinData();
        try {
            zip.writeBd(bdZip);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // We could directly access the bytes of the zip archive, or perhaps
        // get the zip bytes in base64 format.
        String zipAsBase64 = bdZip.getEncoded("base64");
        System.out.println(zipAsBase64);

        // Or the zip can be used by some other Chilkat method call that accepts
        // a BinData object as an argument.
    }
}