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Java Unzip File Example

Published on August 3, 2022
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By Pankaj

Java Unzip File Example

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Welcome to Java Unzip File Example. In the last post, we learned how to zip file and directory in java, here we will unzip the same zip file created from directory to another output directory.

Java Unzip File

To unzip a zip file, we need to read the zip file with ZipInputStream and then read all the ZipEntry one by one. Then use FileOutputStream to write them to file system. We also need to create the output directory if it doesn’t exists and any nested directories present in the zip file. Here is the java unzip file program that unzips the earlier created tmp.zip to output directory.

package com.journaldev.files;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;

public class UnzipFiles {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String zipFilePath = "/Users/pankaj/tmp.zip";
        
        String destDir = "/Users/pankaj/output";
        
        unzip(zipFilePath, destDir);
    }

    private static void unzip(String zipFilePath, String destDir) {
        File dir = new File(destDir);
        // create output directory if it doesn't exist
        if(!dir.exists()) dir.mkdirs();
        FileInputStream fis;
        //buffer for read and write data to file
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        try {
            fis = new FileInputStream(zipFilePath);
            ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(fis);
            ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry();
            while(ze != null){
                String fileName = ze.getName();
                File newFile = new File(destDir + File.separator + fileName);
                System.out.println("Unzipping to "+newFile.getAbsolutePath());
                //create directories for sub directories in zip
                new File(newFile.getParent()).mkdirs();
                FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(newFile);
                int len;
                while ((len = zis.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                fos.write(buffer, 0, len);
                }
                fos.close();
                //close this ZipEntry
                zis.closeEntry();
                ze = zis.getNextEntry();
            }
            //close last ZipEntry
            zis.closeEntry();
            zis.close();
            fis.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        
    }

}

Once the program finishes, we have all the zip file contents in the output folder with same directory hierarchy. Output of the above program is:

Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/.DS_Store
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/data.dat
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/data.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/xmls/project.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/xmls/web.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data.Xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/DB.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/item.XML
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/item.xsd
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/ms/data.txt
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/ms/project.doc

That’s all about java unzip file example.

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JournalDev
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June 17, 2020

This is the code I’m using which is working fine with sub directories. No external libraries used. package main.java; import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.util.zip.ZipFile; public class UnzipFile { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String fileZip = “src/main/resources/abcd/abc.zip”; File destDir = new File(“src/main/resources/abcd”); try (ZipFile file = new ZipFile(fileZip)) { Enumeration zipEntries = file.entries(); while (zipEntries.hasMoreElements()) { ZipEntry zipEntry = zipEntries.nextElement(); if (zipEntry.isDirectory()) { String subDir = destDir + “\\” + zipEntry.getName(); File as = new File(subDir); as.mkdirs(); } else { // Create new json file File newFile = new File(destDir, zipEntry.getName()); String extractedDirectoryPath = destDir.getCanonicalPath(); String extractedFilePath = newFile.getCanonicalPath(); if (!extractedFilePath.startsWith(extractedDirectoryPath + File.separator)) { throw new IOException("Entry is outside of the target dir: " + zipEntry.getName()); } BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(file.getInputStream(zipEntry)); try (FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(newFile)) { while (inputStream.available() > 0) { outputStream.write(inputStream.read()); } } } } } } }

- Chamlini

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    October 29, 2019

    This code is insecure and vulnerable to the Zip Slip vulnerability. https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

    - Florent Guillaume

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      September 12, 2019

      This code as-is does not work with sub directories.

      - Manoj Kidambi

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        February 25, 2019

        Hiii, Can we unzip .7z format? i am not getting any reasult for unzip .7z file format

        - Painter Priyank

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          December 26, 2018

          Hi Pankaj, The code is working well if zip not contains any file in it if the zip contains any file then its throws file not found exception. Thanks Ajaya

          - Ajaya

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            December 12, 2018

            The code will fail when a ZipEntry is only a directory. You must make a check of it. if(ze.isDirectory()){…}

            - Yeung

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              November 20, 2018

              How to unzip folder having file names with special characters for e.g. test.zip having file with name fndStaticLookups_finder=LookupTypeFinder%3BBindLookupType%3DACTIVITY_SHOWTIMEAS_CD.json

              - Ashok

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                May 11, 2018

                can any one give me 100% generated test case of junit of above code

                - Nirdesh Kumar

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                  February 10, 2018

                  This code is not working

                  - anshu

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                    November 28, 2017

                    This does not handle zip folders that contain sub directories. You need to differentiate between a file and directory in the code

                    - rw

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