Creating zip file from byte

Question

I'm sending byte string of a zip file from client side using JSZip and need to convert it back to zip on server side. the code I've tried isn't working.

b = bytearray()
b.extend(map(ord, request.POST.get("zipFile")))

zipPath = 'uploadFile' + str(uuid.uuid4()) + '.zip'
myzip = zipfile.ZipFile(zipPath, 'w') 
with  myzip:
    myzip.write(b)

It gives the error:

stat: path too long for Windows 

How do I save my byte string as a zip file?

Answer 1

ZipFile.write(filename, [arcname[, compress_type]]) takes the name of a local file to be added to the zip file. To write data from a bytearray or bytes object you need to use the ZipFile.writestr(zinfo_or_arcname, bytes[, compress_type]) method instead shown below:

with zipfile.ZipFile(zipPath, 'w'):
    zipFile.writestr('name_of_file_in_archive', zipContents)

Note: if request.POST.get("zipFile") already is bytes (or str in python2) you don't need to convert it to a bytearray before writing it to the archive.