Hey! o/ I'm in need of making some archives and fo...

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[Tmpod]

Hey! o/
I'm in need of making some archives and for the sake of "universality" I decided to go with ZIP, and so I'm wondering if there's any nicer way than Java's zip module 😅
Thanks in advance!

[grahamborland]

https://github.com/zeroturnaround/zt-zip
It’s a nice wrapper. Uses java.util.zip under the hood.

[Tmpod]

looks nice! will give it a try

[Tmpod]

@grahamborland your library looks nice but I was looking more for a way to pack some content (like some byte arrays) into a new byte array, instead of always doing file IO, since that would be kinda redundant as I'm preparing the zip to send via a Web api

[grahamborland]

There are examples of how to write to/from a stream rather than a file. You can use ByteArrayOutputStream instead of FileOutputStream in this example.
https://github.com/zeroturnaround/zt-zip#add-an-entry-from-file-and-from-byte-array-to-a-output-stream

[Tmpod]

Oh I must have missed that 🤦

[Tmpod]

thanks

[Tmpod]

tho @grahamborland I just looked at it and that method implies I have an existing zip file already, which I don't have

[Tmpod]

ig I could just feed it an empty input stream?

[grahamborland]

It doesn’t imply that at all. It shows how you’d read from both a file and a byte array. If you don’t need the file input, don’t use that line of code.

[grahamborland]

Sorry, I didn’t notice that. I haven’t looked through all the examples in detail, but I assume there’s a way of doing what you want without an existing file.