How should I extract compressed folders in java?

Question

I am using the following code to extract a zip file in Java.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.*;

class  testZipFiles 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {

        try
        {
            String filename = "C:\\zip\\includes.zip";
            testZipFiles list = new testZipFiles( );
            list.getZipFiles(filename);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void getZipFiles(String filename)
    {
        try
        {
            String destinationname = "c:\\zip\\";
            byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
            ZipInputStream zipinputstream = null;
            ZipEntry zipentry;
            zipinputstream = new ZipInputStream(
            new FileInputStream(filename));

            zipentry = zipinputstream.getNextEntry();
            while (zipentry != null) 
            { 
                //for each entry to be extracted
                String entryName = zipentry.getName();
                System.out.println("entryname "+entryName);
                int n;
                FileOutputStream fileoutputstream;
                File newFile = new File(entryName);
                String directory = newFile.getParent();

                if(directory == null)
                {
                    if(newFile.isDirectory())
                    break;
                }

                fileoutputstream = new FileOutputStream(
                   destinationname+entryName);             

                while ((n = zipinputstream.read(buf, 0, 1024)) > -1)
                    fileoutputstream.write(buf, 0, n);

                fileoutputstream.close(); 
                zipinputstream.closeEntry();
                zipentry = zipinputstream.getNextEntry();

            }//while

            zipinputstream.close();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
       {
            e.printStackTrace();
       }
  }

}

Obviously this will not extract a folder tree because of the break statement. I tried to use recursion to process a folder tree but failed. Could someone show me how to improve this code to handle a folder tree instead of a compressed single level folder.

Answer 1

You can use File.mkdirs() to create folders. Try changing your method like this:

public static void getZipFiles(String filename) {
    try {
        String destinationname = "c:\\zip\\";
        byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        ZipInputStream zipinputstream = null;
        ZipEntry zipentry;
        zipinputstream = new ZipInputStream(
                new FileInputStream(filename));

        zipentry = zipinputstream.getNextEntry();
        while (zipentry != null) {
            //for each entry to be extracted
            String entryName = destinationname + zipentry.getName();
            entryName = entryName.replace('/', File.separatorChar);
            entryName = entryName.replace('\\', File.separatorChar);
            System.out.println("entryname " + entryName);
            int n;
            FileOutputStream fileoutputstream;
            File newFile = new File(entryName);
            if (zipentry.isDirectory()) {
                if (!newFile.mkdirs()) {
                    break;
                }
                zipentry = zipinputstream.getNextEntry();
                continue;
            }

            fileoutputstream = new FileOutputStream(entryName);

            while ((n = zipinputstream.read(buf, 0, 1024)) > -1) {
                fileoutputstream.write(buf, 0, n);
            }

            fileoutputstream.close();
            zipinputstream.closeEntry();
            zipentry = zipinputstream.getNextEntry();

        }//while

        zipinputstream.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}