Unzip Archive with Groovy

Question

is there a built-in support in Groovy to handle Zip files (the groovy way)?

Or do i have to use Java\'s java.util.zip.ZipFile to process Zip files in Groovy ?

Answer 1

In my experience, the best way to do this is to use the Antbuilder:

def ant = new AntBuilder()   // create an antbuilder

ant.unzip(  src:"your-src.zip",
            dest:"your-dest-directory",
            overwrite:"false" )

This way you aren't responsible for doing all the complicated stuff - ant takes care of it for you. Obviously if you need something more granular then this isn't going to work, but for most 'just unzip this file' scenarios this is really effective.

To use antbuilder, just include ant.jar and ant-launcher.jar in your classpath.