reading MANIFEST.MF file from jar file using JAVA

Question

Is there any way i can read the contents of a jar file. like i want to read the manifest file in order to find the creator of the jar file and version. Is there any way to a

Answer 1

Achieve the attributes in this simple way

    public static String  getMainClasFromJarFile(String jarFilePath) throws Exception{
    // Path example: "C:\\Users\\GIGABYTE\\.m2\\repository\\domolin\\DeviceTest\\1.0-SNAPSHOT\\DeviceTest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar";
    JarInputStream jarStream = new JarInputStream(new FileInputStream(jarFilePath));
    Manifest mf = jarStream.getManifest();
    Attributes attributes = mf.getMainAttributes();
    // Manifest-Version: 1.0
    // Built-By: GIGABYTE
    // Created-By: Apache Maven 3.0.5
    // Build-Jdk: 1.8.0_144
    // Main-Class: domolin.devicetest.DeviceTest
    String mainClass = attributes.getValue("Main-Class");
    //String mainClass = attributes.getValue("Created-By");
    //  Output: domolin.devicetest.DeviceTest
    return mainClass;
}