It is possible to update individual files in a JAR file using the jar
command as follows:
jar uf TicTacToe.jar images/new.gif
Is there a way to do this programmatically?
I have to rewrite the entire jar file if I use JarOutputStream
, so I was wondering if there was a similar "random access" way to do this. Given that it can be done using the jar
tool, I had expected there to be a similar way to do it programmatically.
It is possible to update just parts of the JAR file using Zip File System Provider available in Java 7:
import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
public class ZipFSPUser {
public static void main(String [] args) throws Throwable {
Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>();
env.put("create", "true");
// locate file system by using the syntax
// defined in java.net.JarURLConnection
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 );
}
}
}
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