PowerBuilder Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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

PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
long li_Success
oleobject loo_Zip
long li_Recurse
long li_SaveExtraPath
long li_ArchiveOnly
long li_IncludeHidden
long li_IncludeSystem

li_Success = 0

loo_Zip = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Zip.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Zip")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Zip
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

li_Success = loo_Zip.NewZip("project.zip")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Zip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Zip
    return
end if

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

//  Recursively append all files beneath c:/project.
//  
//  Because saveExtraPath = 1, the ZIP paths will
//  include "project/" as the leading directory.
li_Recurse = 1
li_SaveExtraPath = 1
li_ArchiveOnly = 0
li_IncludeHidden = 1
li_IncludeSystem = 0

li_Success = loo_Zip.AppendFilesEx("c:/project",li_Recurse,li_SaveExtraPath,li_ArchiveOnly,li_IncludeHidden,li_IncludeSystem)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Zip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Zip
    return
end if

//  Write the ZIP archive.
li_Success = loo_Zip.WriteZipAndClose()
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Zip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Zip
    return
end if

Write-Debug "ZIP archive created successfully."


destroy loo_Zip