Writing to ZipArchive using the HttpContext OutputStream

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the \"new\" ZipArchive included in .NET 4.5 (System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive) to work in a ASP.NET site. But it seems like it doesn\'t

Answer 1

A refinement to svick's answer of 2nd February 2014. I found that it was necessary to implement some more methods and properties of the Stream abstract class and to declare the pos member as long. After that it worked like a charm. I haven't extensively tested this class, but it works for the purposes of returning a ZipArchive in the HttpResponse. I assume I've implemented Seek and Read correctly, but they may need some tweaking.

class PositionWrapperStream : Stream
{
    private readonly Stream wrapped;

    private long pos = 0;

    public PositionWrapperStream(Stream wrapped)
    {
        this.wrapped = wrapped;
    }

    public override bool CanSeek
    {
        get { return false; }
    }

    public override bool CanWrite
    {
        get { return true; }
    }

    public override long Position
    {
        get { return pos; }
        set { throw new NotSupportedException(); }
    }

    public override bool CanRead
    {
        get { return wrapped.CanRead; }
    }

    public override long Length
    {
        get { return wrapped.Length; }
    }

    public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
    {
        pos += count;
        wrapped.Write(buffer, offset, count);
    }

    public override void Flush()
    {
        wrapped.Flush();
    }

    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        wrapped.Dispose();
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }

    public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
    {
        switch (origin)
        {
            case SeekOrigin.Begin:
                pos = 0;
                break;
            case SeekOrigin.End:
                pos = Length - 1;
                break;
        }
        pos += offset;
        return wrapped.Seek(offset, origin);
    }

    public override void SetLength(long value)
    {
        wrapped.SetLength(value);
    }

    public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
    {
        pos += offset;
        int result = wrapped.Read(buffer, offset, count);
        pos += count;
        return result;
    }
}