Re: JarFile/ZipFile from byte array without temp file

From:
 Karsten Wutzke <kwutzke@web.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:29:25 -0700
Message-ID:
<1182968965.463819.242470@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On 27 Jun., 18:20, Nigel Wade <n...@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote:

Karsten Wutzke wrote:

Hi all!

Subject says it all... how do I create a JarFile/ZipFile instance from
a byte array without outputting the byte[] to a temporary file and
reading it back via the JarFile/ZipFile constructors??

Currently I do it via temp file (which sucks):

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File flTempJar = new File(RuntimeConfig.getIoTempDir(),
"deleteme.jar");

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(flTempJar);
fos.write(uncompressedBytes);
fos.close();

System.out.println("Saving extracted library temporarily as file '" +
flTempJar + "' - it sucks......");

JarFile jar = new JarFile(flTempJar);

try
{
    boolean wasSuccessful = flTempJar.delete();
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
    System.err.println("Temporary JAR file '" + flTempJar + "'
couldn't be deleted!");
}

//now do something with the JarFile instance....

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I can't and don't want anyone using this code to require disk access.
When a SecurityManager prohibits this, this code becomes useless.
Furthermore, since this is CLASSLOADER code, all classes to be found
and loaded by this class loader will never be available...

Can anyone help what to do here?

Looks like I have to create my own JarFile subclass to provide the
byte[] constructor.

If there's a different way, I'm all ears...

I wonder who wrote the ZipFile and JarFile classes... how could they
forget byte[] and/or stream constructors? beats me...


Probably because those classes are specific to reading from FileInputStreams?
Try looking for other classes related to Jar and Zip streams...

I would try wrapping a ByteArrayInputStream with a JarInputStream. Something
along the lines of:

   byte[] byteArr;
   ...
   ByteArrayInputStream byteIS = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArr);
   JarInputStream jarIS = new JarInputStream(byteIS);


Hmmm I tried to go via JarInputStream now instead of JarFile. My loop
now goes something like this:

JarInputStream jis = ...; //valid JarInputStream

while ( true )
{
    JarEntry je = jis.getNextJarEntry();

    if ( je == null )
    {
        //no more entries
        break;
    }

    String strName = je.getName();
    int size = (int)je.getSize(); //<- RETURNS -1 *always*

    System.out.println(strName + " has " + size + " bytes
(JarEntry.getSize())");

    byte[] uncompressedBytes = new byte[size]; //CAUSES
NegativeArraySizeException

    //"jar" was an instance to the JarFile, JarInputStream doesn't
have equivalent method!
    //DataInputStream dis = new
DataInputStream(jar.getInputStream(je));
    DataInputStream dis = new
DataInputStream(jis.getInputStream(je)); //UNKNOWN METHOD
    dis.readFully(uncompressedBytes, 0, uncompressedBytes.length);
    dis.close();

    hmBytes.put(strClassName, uncompressedBytes);
}

How do I get the uncompressed bytes of a JarEntry?? Hmmm I looked at
the code too many hours now, maybe I'm just blind...

Karsten

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