Lianja

Transition from Zip.AppendBd to Zip.AddBd

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendBd method calls with AddBd. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

loZip = createobject("CkZip")

// ...
// ...

lcPathInZip = "example.dat"

loBd = createobject("CkBinData")
loBd.LoadFile("c:/someDir/example.dat")

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

loEntryObj = loZip.AppendBd(lcPathInZip,loBd)
if (loZip.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    release loZip
    release loBd
    return
endif

// ...
// ...

release loEntryObj

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Do the equivalent using AddBd.

// Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
llSuccess = loZip.AddBd(lcPathInZip,loBd)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    release loZip
    release loBd
    return
endif

// Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
// The newly appended entry is the last one.
loZe = createobject("CkZipEntry")
lnIndex = loZip.NumEntries - 1
loZip.EntryAt(lnIndex,loZe)


release loZip
release loBd
release loZe