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Zip and Unzip from a C# program using J# runtime

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Zip and Unzip from a C# program using java.util.zip

Introduction

There are a lot of libraries to work with zip files. I found a very easy way to work with zip files from a C# program. The Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 comes with new language: J#. Let's look at it a little. For sure, Java is a parent of it; if so, java.util.zip is somewhere here! I spent a few minutes and found it in vjslib.dll. Let's do the work. Start a new C# project and select Windows Application. Our goal is something like that:

Image 1

All we need to do is: add reference to our project:

Image 2

Now, we can use it:

C#
// Output stream 
java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(zipFileName); 

// Tie to zip stream 
java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream zos = new java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream(fos); 

// Stream with source file 
java.io.FileInputStream fis = new java.io.FileInputStream(sourceFile); 

// It's our entry in zip 
java.util.zip.ZipEntry ze = new java.util.zip.ZipEntry(sourceFile); 

zos.putNextEntry(ze); 
sbyte[] buffer = new sbyte[1024]; 
int len; 

// Read and write until done 
while((len = fis.read(buffer)) >= 0) 
{ 
    zos.write(buffer, 0, len); 
}
 
// Close everything 
zos.closeEntry(); 
fis.close(); 
zos.close(); 
fos.close(); 

Conclusion

That's all! Demo application is included.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


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QuestionIs it possible to read in the middle of the zip file? Pin
shultas30-Aug-06 15:52
shultas30-Aug-06 15:52 
We have thousands and thousands of zip files on our server. I have written a program that opens up these zip files and extracts certain files from them (i.e, *.doc files). I have been doing this over VPN, and it is much slower than going into the office. Most of the time I only need one .DOC file that is in a 5 or 10MB zip, and it happens to be the last file stored in most of the zips. What is happening is that the program is reading the zip file until it finds a file it wants and then extracts only that file. The problem is since these files are stored at the end of the .ZIP, it takes many minutes for it to iterate through all of the files that are in the ZIP (even though I don't want to do anything with them, or try to read them, etc...) and it just takes a while.

I am wondering if ZIP stores the file contents in a header, and if it does, if it is possible to just read that header, figure out what files you need and what byte offset it is at and then "skip" right to that file without reading the entire zip file? This would make my helper application a million times faster. I've looked around for other solutions but I can't seem to see any that can do it, it appears as if this Java class needs to read the contents of the entire file to get you what you want.

Thanks!
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