Extracting Zip files in Adobe AIR with the nochump library

Today, I'm going to show you how you can use the nochump library to extract zip files with Adobe AIR.

The ZipFile class constructor takes an IDataStream object as the parameter.Here you can use a ByteArray or a FileStream object which contains the data of the zip file. The entries property of the ZipFile object contains all the files in the archive as ZipEntry objects. Here the directory itself(excluding the files inside it) also counts as a ZipEntry object, so make sure to check using the isDirectory property of the ZipEntry object. Finally get the data of a single file using zipFile.getInput() method.

Here's the code :

   import flash.filesystem.*;
   import flash.net.FileFilter;
   
   import nochump.util.zip.*;
   
   private var zipInput:File = new File();
   private var zipOutput:File = new File();
   private var zipFile:ZipFile;
   
   private function loadZIP():void
   {
    var filter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("ZIP","*.zip");
    zipInput.browseForOpen("Open ZIP file",[filter]);
    zipInput.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onSelect);
   }
   
   private function onSelect(e:Event):void
   {
    var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
    stream.open(zipInput,FileMode.READ);
    
    zipFile = new ZipFile(stream);
    extract.enabled = true;
   }
   
   private function extractZIP():void
   {
    zipOutput.browseForDirectory("Select Directory for extract");
    zipOutput.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onDirSelect);
   }
   
   private function onDirSelect(e:Event):void
   {
    for(var i:uint = 0; i < zipFile.entries.length; i++)
    {
     var zipEntry:ZipEntry = zipFile.entries[i] as ZipEntry;
     // The class considers the folder itself (without the contents) as a ZipEntry.
     // So the code creates the subdirectories as expected.
     if(!zipEntry.isDirectory())
     {
      var targetDir:File = e.target as File;
      var entryFile:File = new File();
      entryFile = targetDir.resolvePath(zipEntry.name);
      var entry:FileStream = new FileStream();
      entry.open(entryFile, FileMode.WRITE);
      entry.writeBytes(zipFile.getInput(zipEntry));
      entry.close();
     }
    }
   }

You can download the project archive here. Happy experimenting :D