Unzipping files

Question

I want to display OpenOffice files, .odt and .odp at client side using a web browser.

These files are zipped files. Using Ajax, I can get these files from server bu

Answer 1

I found jszip quite useful. I've used so far only for reading, but they have create/edit capabilities as well.

Code wise it looks something like this

var new_zip = new JSZip();
new_zip.load(file);
new_zip.files["doc.xml"].asText() // this give you the text in the file

One thing I noticed is that it seems the file has to be in binary stream format (read using the .readAsArrayBuffer of FileReader(), otherwise I was getting errors saying I might have a corrupt zip file

Edit: Note from the 2.x to 3.0.0 upgrade guide:

The load() method and the constructor with data (new JSZip(data)) have been replaced by loadAsync().

Thanks user2677034