Compress directory to tar.gz with Commons Compress

Question

I\'m running into a problem using the commons compress library to create a tar.gz of a directory. I have a directory structure that is as follows.

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Answer 1

I ended up doing the following:

public URL createTarGzip() throws IOException {
    Path inputDirectoryPath = ...
    File outputFile = new File("/path/to/filename.tar.gz");

    try (FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
            BufferedOutputStream bufferedOutputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(fileOutputStream);
            GzipCompressorOutputStream gzipOutputStream = new GzipCompressorOutputStream(bufferedOutputStream);
            TarArchiveOutputStream tarArchiveOutputStream = new TarArchiveOutputStream(gzipOutputStream)) {

        tarArchiveOutputStream.setBigNumberMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.BIGNUMBER_POSIX);
        tarArchiveOutputStream.setLongFileMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.LONGFILE_GNU);

        List files = new ArrayList<>(FileUtils.listFiles(
                inputDirectoryPath,
                new RegexFileFilter("^(.*?)"),
                DirectoryFileFilter.DIRECTORY
        ));

        for (int i = 0; i < files.size(); i++) {
            File currentFile = files.get(i);

            String relativeFilePath = new File(inputDirectoryPath.toUri()).toURI().relativize(
                    new File(currentFile.getAbsolutePath()).toURI()).getPath();

            TarArchiveEntry tarEntry = new TarArchiveEntry(currentFile, relativeFilePath);
            tarEntry.setSize(currentFile.length());

            tarArchiveOutputStream.putArchiveEntry(tarEntry);
            tarArchiveOutputStream.write(IOUtils.toByteArray(new FileInputStream(currentFile)));
            tarArchiveOutputStream.closeArchiveEntry();
        }
        tarArchiveOutputStream.close();
        return outputFile.toURI().toURL();
    }
}

This takes care of the some of the edge cases that come up in the other solutions.