Issues with zipping files

[sito42]

Hi there,

I was wondering if someone can shed some light as to why zipping files with the java.util.zip package does not work the same as Winzip. I use this auto-generated zip file to upload to my webserver. When uploading, it unzips the file, and reads an xml file. The xml file only contains one opening and closing tag but somehow the system hiccups when trying to read this xml file. It's as if the java.util.zip added extra hidden characters to the zip file. When I use Winzip to manually zip it up, it uploads just fine. Does it have anything to do with the different compression levels between the two utiliites?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Eranga]

Can you show up your code here to see?

[sito42]

Here is my code to zip up the files:

public void createZipFile(String[] source, String zipFileName) {
		
	byte[] buf = new byte[18024];
    	
    	try {
            ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new  FileOutputStream(zipFileName));
        
            for (int i=0; i<source.length; i++) {
               FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(source[i]);
        
                out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(source[i]));
        
                int len;
                while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
                    out.write(buf, 0, len);
                }
                out.closeEntry();
               in.close();
            }        
             out.close();
       } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
        }
}

and this is the code I use to read the xml in the zip file:

File propertyFile = new File (propertyFilePath);
        FileInputStream fis = null;
        try {
        	fis = new FileInputStream(propertyFile);
        }
        catch (IOException e){
        	System.out.println("Problem reading properties.xml: " + e);
        }

It throws an exception when I tried to read the xml file, a file that contains only a opening and closing tag. It says "de.schlichtherle.io.UpdatingArchiveController$Arc hiveEntryNotFoundException: C:\\temp\test.zipCategory/properties.xml: No such entry!". I printed out the absolute path to it and it was valid (C:\temp\test.zip\Category\properties.xml). I'm not sure what the problem is. Works fine when I use winzip to manually zip up these files.

Thanks!

[sito42]

I figured it out. It seemed like truezip didn't like the fact that the zip file was created using ZipOutputStream. So when I used truezip to zip the file, it worked.