Perl

Create Zip in a BinData Object

See more Zip Examples

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

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $zip = Chilkat2::Zip->new;

# Initialize the zip object.  Because we will never actually write a zip file to the filesystem,
# the filepath passed to NewZip does not matter.
my $success = $zip->NewZip('x.zip');
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# 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).

my $recurse = 1;
$success = $zip->AppendFiles('c:/temp/a/*', $recurse);
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Write the zip archive into the bdZip object.
my $bdZip = Chilkat2::BinData->new;
$success = $zip->WriteBd($bdZip);
if (!$success) {
    print $zip->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# We could directly access the bytes of the zip archive, or perhaps
# get the zip bytes in base64 format.
my $zipAsBase64 = $bdZip->GetEncoded('base64');
print $zipAsBase64, "\n";

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