Creating Zip files with Adobe AIR with the nochump library

Following up on my previous post, here's how to archive a bunch of files and make a zip file.

After getting all the files you want to put in the archive, create a new ZipEntry object for each file and add it to a ZipOutput object using the putNextEntry() of the ZipOutput class. Then pass the ByteArray data of the file to the write() method of the ZipOutput class and close the entry by using the closeEntry() method. Finally, call the finish() method once you have done the same for all the files.

Here's the code snippet :

   import flash.events.FileListEvent;
   import flash.filesystem.*;
   
   import nochump.util.zip.*;
   
   private var zipInput:File = new File();
   private var zipOutput:File = new File();
   private var zipFile:ZipOutput;
   
   private var files:Array = new Array();
   
   private function loadFiles():void
   {
    zipInput.browseForOpenMultiple("Open ZIP file");
    zipInput.addEventListener(FileListEvent.SELECT_MULTIPLE, onSelect);
   }
   
   private function onSelect(e:FileListEvent):void
   {
    for(var i:uint = 0;i < e.files.length;i++)
    {
     var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
     var f:File = e.files[i] as File;
     stream.open(f,FileMode.READ);
     var fileData:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
     stream.readBytes(fileData);
     var file:Object = new Object();
     file.name = f.name;
     file.data = fileData;
     files.push(file);
    }
   }
   
   private function createZIP():void
   {
    zipFile = new ZipOutput();
    for(var i:uint = 0; i < files.length; i++)
    {
     var zipEntry:ZipEntry = new ZipEntry(files[i].name);
     zipFile.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
     zipFile.write(files[i].data);
     zipFile.closeEntry();
    }
    zipFile.finish();
    
    zipOutput.browseForSave("Select target directory");
    zipOutput.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onSave);
   }
   
   private function onSave(e:Event):void
   {
    var archiveFile:File = e.target as File;
    if(!archiveFile.exists)
    {
     var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
     stream.open(archiveFile,FileMode.WRITE);
     stream.writeBytes(zipFile.byteArray);
     stream.close();
    }
   }

As usual you can download the project archive here. Happy experimenting :D

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