ZipFile is modeled after java.util.zip.ZipFile from the Java SDK. The most important methods are those inherited from ZipCentralDirectory for accessing information about the entries in the archive and methods such as #get_input_stream and #get_output_stream for reading from and writing entries to the archive. The class includes a few convenience methods such as extract for extracting entries to the filesystem, and remove, replace, rename and mkdir for making simple modifications to the archive.
Modifications to a zip archive are not committed until commit or close is called. The method open accepts a block following the pattern from File.open offering a simple way to automatically close the archive when the block returns.
The following example opens zip archive my.zip
(creating it
if it doesn’t exist) and adds an entry first.txt
and a
directory entry a_dir
to it.
require 'zip/zip' Zip::ZipFile.open("my.zip", Zip::ZipFile::CREATE) { |zipfile| zipfile.get_output_stream("first.txt") { |f| f.puts "Hello from ZipFile" } zipfile.mkdir("a_dir") }
The next example reopens my.zip
writes the contents of
first.txt
to standard out and deletes the entry from the
archive.
require 'zip/zip' Zip::ZipFile.open("my.zip", Zip::ZipFile::CREATE) { |zipfile| puts zipfile.read("first.txt") zipfile.remove("first.txt") }
ZipFileSystem offers an alternative API that emulates ruby’s interface for accessing the filesystem, ie. the File and Dir classes.
Returns the zip files comment, if it has one
default -> false
default -> false
default -> true
Iterates over the contents of the ZipFile. This is more efficient than using a ZipInputStream since this methods simply iterates through the entries in the central directory structure in the archive whereas ZipInputStream jumps through the entire archive accessing the local entry headers (which contain the same information as the central directory).
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1405 def ZipFile.foreach(aZipFileName, &block) ZipFile.open(aZipFileName) { |zipFile| zipFile.each(&block) } end
Opens a zip archive. Pass true as the second parameter to create a new archive if it doesn’t exist already.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1361 def initialize(fileName, create = nil) super() @name = fileName @comment = "" if (File.exists?(fileName)) File.open(name, "rb") { |f| read_from_stream(f) } elsif (create) @entrySet = ZipEntrySet.new else raise ZipError, "File #{fileName} not found" end @create = create @storedEntries = @entrySet.dup @restore_ownership = false @restore_permissions = false @restore_times = true end
Same as new. If a block is passed the ZipFile object is passed to the block and is automatically closed afterwards just as with ruby’s builtin File.open method.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1383 def ZipFile.open(fileName, create = nil) zf = ZipFile.new(fileName, create) if block_given? begin yield zf ensure zf.close end else zf end end
Convenience method for adding the contents of a file to the archive
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1444 def add(entry, srcPath, &continueOnExistsProc) continueOnExistsProc ||= proc { false } check_entry_exists(entry, continueOnExistsProc, "add") newEntry = entry.kind_of?(ZipEntry) ? entry : ZipEntry.new(@name, entry.to_s) newEntry.gather_fileinfo_from_srcpath(srcPath) @entrySet << newEntry end
Closes the zip file committing any changes that has been made.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1497 def close commit end
Commits changes that has been made since the previous commit to the zip archive.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1481 def commit return if ! commit_required? on_success_replace(name) { |tmpFile| ZipOutputStream.open(tmpFile) { |zos| @entrySet.each { |e| e.write_to_zip_output_stream(zos) } zos.comment = comment } true } initialize(name) end
Returns true if any changes has been made to this archive since the previous commit
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1503 def commit_required? return @entrySet != @storedEntries || @create == ZipFile::CREATE end
Extracts entry to file destPath.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1473 def extract(entry, destPath, &onExistsProc) onExistsProc ||= proc { false } foundEntry = get_entry(entry) foundEntry.extract(destPath, &onExistsProc) end
Searches for entry with the specified name. Returns nil if no entry is found. See also #get_entry
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1509 def find_entry(entry) @entrySet.detect { |e| e.name.sub(/\/$/, "") == entry.to_s.sub(/\/$/, "") } end
Searches for an entry just as #find_entry, but throws Errno::ENOENT if no entry is found.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1518 def get_entry(entry) selectedEntry = find_entry(entry) unless selectedEntry raise Errno::ENOENT, entry end selectedEntry.restore_ownership = @restore_ownership selectedEntry.restore_permissions = @restore_permissions selectedEntry.restore_times = @restore_times return selectedEntry end
Returns an input stream to the specified entry. If a block is passed the stream object is passed to the block and the stream is automatically closed afterwards just as with ruby’s builtin File.open method.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1415 def get_input_stream(entry, &aProc) get_entry(entry).get_input_stream(&aProc) end
Returns an output stream to the specified entry. If a block is passed the stream object is passed to the block and the stream is automatically closed afterwards just as with ruby’s builtin File.open method.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1422 def get_output_stream(entry, &aProc) newEntry = entry.kind_of?(ZipEntry) ? entry : ZipEntry.new(@name, entry.to_s) if newEntry.directory? raise ArgumentError, "cannot open stream to directory entry - '#{newEntry}'" end zipStreamableEntry = ZipStreamableStream.new(newEntry) @entrySet << zipStreamableEntry zipStreamableEntry.get_output_stream(&aProc) end
Creates a directory
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1531 def mkdir(entryName, permissionInt = 0755) if find_entry(entryName) raise Errno::EEXIST, "File exists - #{entryName}" end @entrySet << ZipStreamableDirectory.new(@name, entryName.to_s.ensure_end("/"), nil, permissionInt) end
Returns a string containing the contents of the specified entry
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1439 def read(entry) get_input_stream(entry) { |is| is.read } end
Removes the specified entry.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1453 def remove(entry) @entrySet.delete(get_entry(entry)) end
Renames the specified entry.
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1458 def rename(entry, newName, &continueOnExistsProc) foundEntry = get_entry(entry) check_entry_exists(newName, continueOnExistsProc, "rename") get_output_stream(newName) { |os| os.write(read(foundEntry)) } remove(foundEntry) end
Replaces the specified entry with the contents of srcPath (from the file system).
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1467 def replace(entry, srcPath) check_file(srcPath) add(remove(entry), srcPath) end
Returns the name of the zip archive
# File lib/zip/zip.rb, line 1434 def to_s @name end