how to zip a folder itself using java

Suppose I have the following directory structure.

D:reportsjanuary

Inside january there are suppose two excel files say A.xls and B.xls. There are many places where it has been written about how to zip files using java.util.zip. But I want to zip the january folder itself inside reports folder so that both january and january.zip will be present inside reports. (That means when I unzip the january.zip file I should get the january folder).

Can anyone please provide me the code to do this using java.util.zip. Please let me know whether this can be more easily done by using other libraries.

Thanks a lot…

Answer

It can be easily solved by package java.util.Zip no need any extra Jar files

Just copy the following code and run it with your IDE

//Import all needed packages
package general;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;

public class ZipUtils {

    private List <String> fileList;
    private static final String OUTPUT_ZIP_FILE = "Folder.zip";
    private static final String SOURCE_FOLDER = "D:\Reports"; // SourceFolder path

    public ZipUtils() {
        fileList = new ArrayList < String > ();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ZipUtils appZip = new ZipUtils();
        appZip.generateFileList(new File(SOURCE_FOLDER));
        appZip.zipIt(OUTPUT_ZIP_FILE);
    }

    public void zipIt(String zipFile) {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        String source = new File(SOURCE_FOLDER).getName();
        FileOutputStream fos = null;
        ZipOutputStream zos = null;
        try {
            fos = new FileOutputStream(zipFile);
            zos = new ZipOutputStream(fos);

            System.out.println("Output to Zip : " + zipFile);
            FileInputStream in = null;

            for (String file: this.fileList) {
                System.out.println("File Added : " + file);
                ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(source + File.separator + file);
                zos.putNextEntry(ze);
                try {
                    in = new FileInputStream(SOURCE_FOLDER + File.separator + file);
                    int len;
                    while ((len = in .read(buffer)) > 0) {
                        zos.write(buffer, 0, len);
                    }
                } finally {
                    in.close();
                }
            }

            zos.closeEntry();
            System.out.println("Folder successfully compressed");

        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                zos.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    public void generateFileList(File node) {
        // add file only
        if (node.isFile()) {
            fileList.add(generateZipEntry(node.toString()));
        }

        if (node.isDirectory()) {
            String[] subNote = node.list();
            for (String filename: subNote) {
                generateFileList(new File(node, filename));
            }
        }
    }

    private String generateZipEntry(String file) {
        return file.substring(SOURCE_FOLDER.length() + 1, file.length());
    }
}

Refer mkyong..I changed the code for the requirement of current question