My app is a tender document system where each tender number has one or more pdf files attached.
application is done in java ee using struts and mysql.
in a database table the paths of each related pdf file for a tender number is stores.
I want to get all the pdf files and create a single ZIP file for each tender number so that user can download that zip file and have all the related documents in a single click.
I tried Google and found something called ZipOutputStream
but i cannot understand how to use this in my application.
You're almost there... This is a small example of how to use ZipOutputStream
... let's asume that you have a JAVA helper H that returns database records with pdf file paths (and related info):
FileOutputStream zipFile = new FileOutputStream(new File("xxx.zip"));
ZipOutputStream output = new ZipOutputStream(zipFile);
for (Record r : h.getPdfRecords()) {
ZipEntry zipEntry = new ZipEntry(r.getPdfName());
output.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
FileInputStream pdfFile = new FileInputStream(new File(r.getPath()));
IOUtils.copy(pdfFile, output); // this method belongs to apache IO Commons lib!
pdfFile.close();
output.closeEntry();
}
output.finish();
output.close();
Checkout this code, here you can easily create a zip file directory:
public class CreateZipFileDirectory {
public static void main(String args[])
{
try
{
String zipFile = "C:/FileIO/zipdemo.zip";
String sourceDirectory = "C:/examples";
//create byte buffer
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(zipFile);
ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(fout);
File dir = new File(sourceDirectory);
if(!dir.isDirectory())
{
System.out.println(sourceDirectory + " is not a directory");
}
else
{
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
for(int i=0; i < files.length ; i++)
{
System.out.println("Adding " + files[i].getName());
FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(files[i]);
zout.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(files[i].getName()));
int length;
while((length = fin.read(buffer)) > 0)
{
zout.write(buffer, 0, length);
}
zout.closeEntry();
fin.close();
}
}
zout.close();
System.out.println("Zip file has been created!");
}
catch(IOException ioe)
{
System.out.println("IOException :" + ioe);
}
}
}