How to extract specific file in a zip file in java

Question

I need to provide a view of zip file to customer in system, and allow customers download choosed files.

1. parse the zip file and show on the web page. and remember every zipentry location(for example file1 is starting from byte 100 width length 1024bytes) in backend.
2. download the specified file when customer click the download button.

now I have rememberred all zipentry locations, but is there java zip tools to unzip the specified location of zip files?? API just like unzip(file, long entryStart, long entryLength);

Answer 1

This can be done without messing with byte arrays or input streams using Java 7's NIO2:

public void extractFile(Path zipFile, String fileName, Path outputFile) throws IOException {
    // Wrap the file system in a try-with-resources statement
    // to auto-close it when finished and prevent a memory leak
    try (FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystems.newFileSystem(zipFile, null)) {
        Path fileToExtract = fileSystem.getPath(fileName);
        Files.copy(fileToExtract, outputFile);
    }
}

Answer 2

You can try like this:

ZipFile zf = new ZipFile(file);
try {
  InputStream in = zf.getInputStream(zf.getEntry("file.txt"));
  // ... read from 'in' as normal
} finally {
  zf.close();
}

I havent tried it but in Java 7 ZipFileSystem you can try like this to extract file.TXT file from the zip file.

Path zipfile = Paths.get("/samples/ziptest.zip");
FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(zipfile, env, null);
final Path root = fs.getPath("/file.TXT");