Getting a directory inside a .jar

Question

I am trying to access a directory inside my jar file. I want to go through every of the files inside the directory itself. I tried, for example, using the following:

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Answer 1

What you are looking for here might be the JarEntry list of the Jar... I had done some similar work during grad school... You can get the modified class here (http://code.google.com/p/marcellodesales-cs-research/source/browse/trunk/grad-ste-ufpe-brazil/ptf-add-on-dev/src/br/ufpe/cin/stp/global/filemanager/JarFileContentsLoader.java) Note that the URL contains an older Java class not using Generics...

This class returns a set of URLs with the protocol "jar:file:/" for a given token...

package com.collabnet.svnedge.discovery.client.browser.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

public class JarFileContentsLoader {

    private JarFile jarFile;

    public JarFileContentsLoader(String jarFilePath) throws IOException {
        this.jarFile = new JarFile(jarFilePath);
    }

    /**
     * @param existingPath an existing path string inside the jar.
     * @return the set of URL's from inside the Jar (whose protocol is "jar:file:/"
     */
    public Set getDirEntries(String existingPath) {
        Set set = new HashSet();
        Enumeration entries = jarFile.entries();
        while (entries.hasMoreElements()) {
            String element = entries.nextElement().getName();
            URL url = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(element);
            if (url.toString().contains("jar:file")
                    && !element.contains(".class")
                    && element.contains(existingPath)) {
                set.add(url);
            }
        }
        return set;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        JarFileContentsLoader jarFileContents = new JarFileContentsLoader(
                "/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar");
        Set entries = jarFileContents.getDirEntries("impl");
        Iterator a = entries.iterator();
        while (a.hasNext()) {
            URL element = a.next();
            System.out.println(element);
        }
    }

}

The output would be:

jar:file:/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar!/javax/jmdns/impl/constants/
jar:file:/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar!/javax/jmdns/impl/tasks/state/
jar:file:/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar!/javax/jmdns/impl/tasks/resolver/
jar:file:/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar!/javax/jmdns/impl/
jar:file:/u1/svnedge-discovery/client-browser/lib/jmdns.jar!/javax/jmdns/impl/tasks/