Building a Zip utility like Winzip is easy in Java, similarly building a unzip tool is easy too, thanks to java.util.zip package.
Basically in this case we need to open a ZipInputStream to reference the zipped file that we want to extract. Then loop through all the ZipEntry defined in the file. Each ZipEntry represent a file that is packaged into the zip file. While looping, create a handle for each of the output file using FileOutputStream. Then read the byte chucks of that file from the ZipInputStream and write it to FileOutputStream and flush. Once done extracting all the files, finally close the zip output stream. As a result of this, the output folder will contain all the extracted files what were contained in the zip.
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package com.livrona.snippets.io;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
/**
* This snippet show how write a unzip a file and extract its contents.
*
* @author java4learners
*/
publicclass UnzipFile {
// buffer to hold contents
privatestaticfinalint BUFFER =1024;
/**
* Unzip the file into output folder
*
* @param inFile
* @param outFolder
* @return
*/
publicvoid unzip(File inFile, File outFolder) {
try {
// create a zip input stream
ZipInputStream in =new ZipInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(
new FileInputStream(inFile)));
ZipEntry entry;
// loop through zipped file entries
while ((entry = in.getNextEntry()) !=null) {
System.out.println("Extracting: "+ entry);
int count;
// buffer to read bytes of the file
byte data[] =newbyte[BUFFER];
// write the files to the disk
BufferedOutputStream out =new BufferedOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(outFolder.getPath() +"/"
+ entry.getName()), BUFFER);
// read of bytes and write to file in output folder
while ((count = in.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1) {
out.write(data, 0, count);
}
// clean the file output stream created
cleanUp(out);
}
cleanUp(in);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Failed to extract : "+ e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Close the Input Stream
*
* @param in
* @throws Exception
*/
privatevoid cleanUp(InputStream in) throws Exception {
in.close();
}
/**
* Close the output stream
*
* @param out
* @throws Exception
*/
privatevoid cleanUp(OutputStream out) throws Exception {
out.flush();
out.close();
}
/**
* Test Method
* @param args
*/
publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) {
if (args.length !=2) {
System.out
.println("Usage: java com.livrona.snippets.io.UnzipFile <Path to your zip file> <Path to output folder>");
System.exit(0);
}
// store args
String zipfile = args[0];
String folder = args[1];
System.out.println("Zip File : "+ zipfile);
System.out.println("Output File : "+ folder);
// invoke the unzipper
try {
UnzipFile unzipper =new UnzipFile();
unzipper.unzip(new File(zipfile), new File(folder));
System.out.println("File unzipped successfully");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Failed to unzip file : "+ e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}