How to create a zip file in Java

Question

I have a dynamic text file that picks content from a database according to the user's query. I have to write this content into a text file and zip it in a folder in a servlet. How should I do this?

Answer 1

Since it took me a while to figure it out, I thought it would be helpful to post my solution using Java 7+ ZipFileSystem

 openZip(runFile);

 addToZip(filepath); //loop construct;  

 zipfs.close();

 private void openZip(File runFile) throws IOException {
    Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>();
    env.put("create", "true");
    env.put("encoding", "UTF-8");
    Files.deleteIfExists(runFile.toPath());
    zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(URI.create("jar:" + runFile.toURI().toString()), env);    
 }

 private void addToZip(String filename) throws IOException {
    Path externalTxtFile = Paths.get(filename).toAbsolutePath();
    Path pathInZipfile = zipfs.getPath(filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf("results"))); //all files to be stored have a common base folder, results/ in my case
    if (Files.isDirectory(externalTxtFile)) {
        Files.createDirectories(pathInZipfile);
        try (DirectoryStream<Path> ds = Files.newDirectoryStream(externalTxtFile)) {
            for (Path child : ds) {
                addToZip(child.normalize().toString()); //recursive call
            }
        }
    } else {
        // copy file to zip file
        Files.copy(externalTxtFile, pathInZipfile, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);            
    }
 }

Answer 2

public static void main(String args[])
{
    omtZip("res/", "omt.zip");
}
public static void omtZip(String path,String outputFile)
{
    final int BUFFER = 2048;
    boolean isEntry = false;
    ArrayList<String> directoryList = new ArrayList<String>();
    File f = new File(path);
    if(f.exists())
    {
    try {
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
            ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(fos));
            byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];

            if(f.isDirectory())
            {
               //This is Directory
                do{
                    String directoryName = "";
                    if(directoryList.size() > 0)
                    {
                        directoryName = directoryList.get(0);
                        System.out.println("Directory Name At 0 :"+directoryName);
                    }
                    String fullPath = path+directoryName;
                    File fileList = null;
                    if(directoryList.size() == 0)
                    {
                        //Main path (Root Directory)
                        fileList = f;
                    }else
                    {
                        //Child Directory
                        fileList = new File(fullPath);
                    }
                    String[] filesName = fileList.list();

                    int totalFiles = filesName.length;
                    for(int i = 0 ; i < totalFiles ; i++)
                    {
                        String name = filesName[i];
                        File filesOrDir = new File(fullPath+name);
                        if(filesOrDir.isDirectory())
                        {
                            System.out.println("New Directory Entry :"+directoryName+name+"/");
                            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(directoryName+name+"/");
                            zos.putNextEntry(entry);
                            isEntry = true;
                            directoryList.add(directoryName+name+"/");
                        }else
                        {
                            System.out.println("New File Entry :"+directoryName+name);
                            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(directoryName+name);
                            zos.putNextEntry(entry);
                            isEntry = true;
                            FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(filesOrDir);
                            BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(fileInputStream, BUFFER);
                            int size = -1;
                            while(  (size = bufferedInputStream.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1  )
                            {
                                zos.write(data, 0, size);
                            }
                            bufferedInputStream.close();
                        }
                    }
                    if(directoryList.size() > 0 && directoryName.trim().length() > 0)
                    {
                        System.out.println("Directory removed :"+directoryName);
                        directoryList.remove(0);
                    }

                }while(directoryList.size() > 0);
            }else
            {
                //This is File
                //Zip this file
                System.out.println("Zip this file :"+f.getPath());
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
                BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis,BUFFER);
                ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(f.getName());
                zos.putNextEntry(entry);
                isEntry = true;
                int size = -1 ;
                while(( size = bis.read(data,0,BUFFER)) != -1)
                {
                    zos.write(data, 0, size);
                }
            }               

            //CHECK IS THERE ANY ENTRY IN ZIP ? ----START
            if(isEntry)
            {
              zos.close();
            }else
            {
                zos = null;
                System.out.println("No Entry Found in Zip");
            }
            //CHECK IS THERE ANY ENTRY IN ZIP ? ----START
        }catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }else
    {
        System.out.println("File or Directory not found");
    }
 }    

}

Answer 3

To write a ZIP file, you use a ZipOutputStream. For each entry that you want to place into the ZIP file, you create a ZipEntry object. You pass the file name to the ZipEntry constructor; it sets the other parameters such as file date and decompression method. You can override these settings if you like. Then, you call the putNextEntry method of the ZipOutputStream to begin writing a new file. Send the file data to the ZIP stream. When you are done, call closeEntry. Repeat for all the files you want to store. Here is a code skeleton:

FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream("test.zip");
ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(fout);
for all files
{
    ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(filename);
    zout.putNextEntry(ze);
    send data to zout;
    zout.closeEntry();
}
zout.close();

Answer 4

Here is an example code to compress a Whole Directory(including sub files and sub directories), it's using the walk file tree feature of Java NIO.

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;

public class ZipCompress {
    public static void compress(String dirPath) {
        Path sourceDir = Paths.get(dirPath);
        String zipFileName = dirPath.concat(".zip");
        try {
            ZipOutputStream outputStream = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFileName));
            Files.walkFileTree(sourceDir, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
                @Override
                public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attributes) {
                    try {
                        Path targetFile = sourceDir.relativize(file);
                        outputStream.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(targetFile.toString()));
                        byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(file);
                        outputStream.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
                        outputStream.closeEntry();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                    return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
                }
            });
            outputStream.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

To use this, just call

ZipCompress.compress("target/directoryToCompress");

and you'll get a zip file directoryToCompress.zip

Answer 5

Java 7 has ZipFileSystem built in, that can be used to create, write and read file from zip file.

Java Doc: ZipFileSystem Provider

Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>(); 
env.put("create", "true");

URI uri = URI.create("jar:file:/codeSamples/zipfs/zipfstest.zip");

try (FileSystem zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env)) {
    Path externalTxtFile = Paths.get("/codeSamples/zipfs/SomeTextFile.txt");
    Path pathInZipfile = zipfs.getPath("/SomeTextFile.txt");          
    // copy a file into the zip file
    Files.copy(externalTxtFile, pathInZipfile, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING); 
}

Answer 6

If you want decompress without software better use this code. Other code with pdf files sends error on manually decompress

byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];     
    try
    {   
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("123.zip");
        ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(fos);
        ZipEntry ze= new ZipEntry("file.pdf");
        zos.putNextEntry(ze);
        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("file.pdf");
        int len;
        while ((len = in.read(buffer)) > 0) 
        {
            zos.write(buffer, 0, len);
        }
        in.close();
        zos.closeEntry();
        zos.close();
    }
    catch(IOException ex)
    {
       ex.printStackTrace();
    }