How to check if a generated zip file is corrupted?

Question

we have a piece of code which generates a zip file on our system. Everything is ok, but sometimes this zip file while opened by FilZip or WinZip is considered to be corrupte

Answer 1

new ZipFile(file) 

compress again the file, so duplicate efforts and that is not what you are looking for. Despite of the fact that only check one file and the question compress n-files.

Take a look to this: http://www.kodejava.org/examples/336.html

Create a checksum for your zip:

CheckedOutputStream checksum = new CheckedOutputStream(fos, new CRC32());
ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(checksum));
...

And when you finish the compression show it

System.out.println("Checksum   : " + checksum.getChecksum().getValue());

You must do the same reading the zip with java or others tools checking if checksums match.

see https://stackoverflow.com/a/10689488/848072 for more information