December 18, 2009
(I'm using D1)
Is it possible to create directories in a zip with std.zip? I couldn't find
any info about that.
So far I've only figured out how to read/write files. (code below)

Or should I be using something else entirely if I want to create archives?

---
module main;

import std.stdio: writefln;
import std.file: read, write;
import std.zip;

void main()
{
 auto archive = new ZipArchive;
 auto member = new ArchiveMember;

 member.compressionMethod = 8; //0: none, 8: deflate
 member.name = `hello.txt`;
 member.expandedData = cast(ubyte[])`Hello`;
 archive.addMember(member);

 member = new ArchiveMember;
 member.compressionMethod = 8;
 member.name = `world.txt`;
 member.expandedData = cast(ubyte[])`World!`;
 archive.addMember(member);

 auto data = archive.build();
 write(`test.zip`,data);
 auto text = read(`test.zip`);
 auto archive2 = new ZipArchive(text);

 foreach (ArchiveMember mem; archive2.directory)
 {
  archive2.expand(mem);
  writefln(cast(char[])mem.expandedData);
 }
}
--- 


December 22, 2009
Ah, well, it seems simply putting the directory in the member.name (ie. "dir\test.txt") is the way to do it.

Move along, nothing to see here.

"nobody" <somebody@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:hggvh2$1t67$1@digitalmars.com...
> (I'm using D1)
> Is it possible to create directories in a zip with std.zip? I couldn't
> find any info about that.
> So far I've only figured out how to read/write files. (code below)
>
> Or should I be using something else entirely if I want to create archives?
>
> ---
> module main;
>
> import std.stdio: writefln;
> import std.file: read, write;
> import std.zip;
>
> void main()
> {
> auto archive = new ZipArchive;
> auto member = new ArchiveMember;
>
> member.compressionMethod = 8; //0: none, 8: deflate
> member.name = `hello.txt`;
> member.expandedData = cast(ubyte[])`Hello`;
> archive.addMember(member);
>
> member = new ArchiveMember;
> member.compressionMethod = 8;
> member.name = `world.txt`;
> member.expandedData = cast(ubyte[])`World!`;
> archive.addMember(member);
>
> auto data = archive.build();
> write(`test.zip`,data);
> auto text = read(`test.zip`);
> auto archive2 = new ZipArchive(text);
>
> foreach (ArchiveMember mem; archive2.directory)
> {
>  archive2.expand(mem);
>  writefln(cast(char[])mem.expandedData);
> }
> }
> --- 
>
>