Java – Unzip File with Sub-directories

Example of java code to uncompress and extract files from a compressed zip file using java.util.zip package. In this example, code open a zip file and start traversing the files in similar manner to directory browsing. If we find a directory entry, we create the directory. If we find a file entry, we write the decompressed file.

Unzip File Example

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;

public class Main 
{
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		//Open the file 
		try(ZipFile file = new ZipFile("files.zip"))
		{
			FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystems.getDefault();
			//Get file entries
			Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries = file.entries();
			
			//We will unzip files in this folder
			String uncompressedDirectory = "uncompressed/";
			Files.createDirectory(fileSystem.getPath(uncompressedDirectory));
			
			//Iterate over entries
			while (entries.hasMoreElements()) 
			{
				ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement();
				//If directory then create a new directory in uncompressed folder
				if (entry.isDirectory()) 
				{
					System.out.println("Creating Directory:" + uncompressedDirectory + entry.getName());
					Files.createDirectories(fileSystem.getPath(uncompressedDirectory + entry.getName()));
				} 
				//Else create the file
				else 
				{
					InputStream is = file.getInputStream(entry);
					BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
					String uncompressedFileName = uncompressedDirectory	+ entry.getName();
					Path uncompressedFilePath = fileSystem.getPath(uncompressedFileName);
					Files.createFile(uncompressedFilePath);
					FileOutputStream fileOutput = new FileOutputStream(uncompressedFileName);
					while (bis.available() > 0) 
					{
						fileOutput.write(bis.read());
					}
					fileOutput.close();
					System.out.println("Written :" + entry.getName());
				}
			}
		}
		catch(IOException e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

How example works

Below listed things are happening in sequence in above example.

1. ZipFile object represents the .zip file and is used to access its information.
2. ZipEntry class represents an entry in the zip file – either file or directory.
3. Each ZipEntry instance has the compressed and uncompressed size information, the name, and the input stream of the uncompressed bytes.
4. Using InputStream and BufferedInputStream, we read the uncompressed bytes into a byte buffer to then use FileOutputStream to write it to a file.
5. Keep doing it until whole file is processed.

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