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    Default Displaying byte files

    Hi, as part of an assignment i have to display the contents of a byte file which is inside a zip file using a java swing component. There is .exe file there and i would like to display the contents of it. I have
     ZipEntry entry = instream.getNextEntry();
    . The instream is a ZipInputStream object. What should i use or do next in order to get the contents of the byte file and display them. Thanks for anyone's help.


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    Default Re: Displaying byte files

    You need to get the InputStream for the ZipEntry. I presume at this point you have a ZipFile object from which you got the ZipEntry - ZipFile has a method getInputStream
    InputStream is = myZipFile.getInputStream(myZipEntry);

    From there you can read the file. If this doesn't make much sense, I recommend reading the API of both of those classes, and the following: Lesson: Basic I/O (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)

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    Default Re: Displaying byte files

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    You need to get the InputStream for the ZipEntry. I presume at this point you have a ZipFile object from which you got the ZipEntry - ZipFile has a method getInputStream
    InputStream is = myZipFile.getInputStream(myZipEntry);

    From there you can read the file. If this doesn't make much sense, I recommend reading the API of both of those classes, and the following: Lesson: Basic I/O (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)
    I don't have a ZipFile object. I had to write a program that expands a zip file that contains four files.. two .txt files and two .exe files and display and modify contents of these files. I was able to work with the .txt files as shown below in my code but in the else statement where i wish to deal with the .exe files.. i am stuck. I get confused with all these different input stream classes. I want to be able to display the contents of both the .exe files and then join them together. I appreciate your help if you can.

     
     
    ZipInputStream instream = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream(
    					choosefile));
     
    			while (i < 4) {
     
    				ZipEntry entry = instream.getNextEntry();
     
    				filename = entry.getName();
     
    				//ZipFile myzip = new ZipFile(filename);
     
    				System.out.println(filename + " being processed..");
     
    				if (filename.endsWith(".txt")) {
    					BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
    							new InputStreamReader(instream));
    					while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
    						String revline = reverseString(line);
    						String wordrev = wordPairReverse(line);
    						writeout.append(revline);
    						writeout.newLine();
    						writeout2.append(wordrev);
    						writeout2.newLine();
     
    					}
     
    				}
     
    				else{
    					// stuck here ...  ...
    				}
    Last edited by mulligan252; October 26th, 2011 at 03:20 PM.

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    Default Re: Displaying byte files

    See the following link, which has a demonstration on reading the byte's from a ZipEntry using a ZipInputStream
    Compressing and Decompressing Data Using Java

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