Read Content from Files which are inside Zip file

I am trying to create a simple java program which reads and extracts the content from the file(s) inside zip file. Zip file contains 3 files (txt, pdf, docx). I need to read the contents of all these files and I am using Apache Tika for this purpose.

Can somebody help me out here to achieve the functionality. I have tried this so far but no success

Code Snippet

public class SampleZipExtract {


    public static void main(String[] args) {

        List<String> tempString = new ArrayList<String>();
        StringBuffer sbf = new StringBuffer();

        File file = new File("C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\abc.zip");
        InputStream input;
        try {

          input = new FileInputStream(file);
          ZipInputStream zip = new ZipInputStream(input);
          ZipEntry entry = zip.getNextEntry();

          BodyContentHandler textHandler = new BodyContentHandler();
          Metadata metadata = new Metadata();

          Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();

          while (entry!= null){

                if(entry.getName().endsWith(".txt") || 
                           entry.getName().endsWith(".pdf")||
                           entry.getName().endsWith(".docx")){
              System.out.println("entry=" + entry.getName() + " " + entry.getSize());
                     parser.parse(input, textHandler, metadata, new ParseContext());
                     tempString.add(textHandler.toString());
                }
           }
           zip.close();
           input.close();

           for (String text : tempString) {
           System.out.println("Apache Tika - Converted input string : " + text);
           sbf.append(text);
           System.out.println("Final text from all the three files " + sbf.toString());
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TikaException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Answer

If you’re wondering how to get the file content from each ZipEntry it’s actually quite simple. Here’s a sample code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile("C:/test.zip");

    Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries = zipFile.entries();

    while(entries.hasMoreElements()){
        ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement();
        InputStream stream = zipFile.getInputStream(entry);
    }
}

Once you have the InputStream you can read it however you want.

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