zipper: A C++ repository from Togtja

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C++ wrapper around minizip compression library

Zipper's goal is to bring the power and simplicity of minizip to a more object oriented/c++ user friendly library. It was born out of the necessity of a compression library that would be reliable, simple and flexible. By flexibility I mean supporting all kinds of inputs and outputs, but specifically been able to compress into memory instead of been restricted to file compression only, and using data from memory instead of just files as well.

Features

Create zip in memory
Allow files, vector and generic streams as input to zip
File mappings for replacing strategies (overwrite if exists or use alternative name from mapping)
Password protected zip
Multi platform

Getting Started

In order to use and compile zipper you need to have zlib source files. Zipper depends on minizip as well but since it is used as a submodule, you get it when cloning the repo and it gets compiled with the project.

Note: For windows users, zlib is expected to be found at ZLIBROOT.

Download dependencies

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev  # for ubuntu

sudo dnf install zlib-devel  # for fedora
sudo dnf install gcc-c++  # for fedora

Compiling

The preferred way is to create a folder for the compilation output to avoid polluting the root folder

git clone --recursive https://github.com/sebastiandev/zipper.git  # to get zipper and minizip submodule
cd zipper
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make

Installing

Following the previous section Compiling, still from the build folder, type:

sudo make install

You will see a message like:

Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libZipper.so.1.0.1
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/lib/libZipper.so.1
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/lib/libZipper.so
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libZipper.a
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libZipper-static.a
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/Zipper-test
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/pkgconfig/zipper.pc
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/Zipper-test
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/crypt.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/ioapi.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/ioapi_buf.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/ioapi_mem.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/iowin32.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/unzip.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/zip.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/CDirEntry.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/defs.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/tools.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/unzipper.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zipper/zipper.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/zipperConfig.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/zipperTargets.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/zipperTargets-release.cmake

Usage

There are two classes available Zipper and Unzipper. They behave in the same manner regarding constructors and storage parameters. (for a complete example take a look at the tests using the awesome BDD's from Catch library )

Zipping

Creating a zip file with 2 files:

using namespace zipper;

std::ifstream input1("some file");
std::ifstream input2("some file");

Zipper zipper("ziptest.zip");
zipper.add(input1, "Test1");
zipper.add(input2, "Test1");

zipper.close();

Adding a file by name and an entire folder to a zip:

Zipper zipper("ziptest.zip");
zipper.add("somefile.txt");
zipper.add("myFolder");
zipper.close();

Creating a zip file using the awesome streams from boost that lets us use a vector as a stream:

#include <boost\interprocess\streams\vectorstream.hpp>
...

boost::interprocess::basic_vectorstream<std::vector<char>> input_data(some_vector);

Zipper zipper("ziptest.zip");
zipper.add(input_data, "Test1");
zipper.close();

Creating a zip in memory stream with files:

#include <boost\interprocess\streams\vectorstream.hpp>
...

boost::interprocess::basic_vectorstream<std::vector<char>> zip_in_memory;
std::ifstream input1("some file");

Zipper zipper(zip_in_memory);
zipper.add(input1, "Test1");
zipper.close();

Creating a zip in a vector with files:

std::vector<char> zip_vect;
std::ifstream input1("some file");

Zipper zipper(zip_vect);
zipper.add(input1, "Test1");
zipper.close();

Zipping strategies

Possible options to add() methods:

zipper::Zipper::Faster: Compress faster.
zipper::Zipper::Better: Compress better (default).
Do not use other enum zipFlags they are not taken into account.

Unzipping

Getting all entries in zip

Unzipper unzipper("zipfile.zip");
std::vector<ZipEntry> entries = unzipper.entries();
unzipper.close();

Extracting all entries from zip

Unzipper unzipper("zipfile.zip");
unzipper.extract();
unzipper.close();

Extracting all entries from zip using alternative names for existing files on disk

std::map<std::string, std::string> alternativeNames = { {"Test1", "alternative_name_test1"} };
Unzipper unzipper("zipfile.zip");
unzipper.extract(".", alternativeNames);
unzipper.close();

Extracting a single entry from zip

Unzipper unzipper("zipfile.zip");
unzipper.extractEntry("entry name");
unzipper.close();

Extracting a single entry from zip to memory

std::vector<unsigned char> unzipped_entry;
Unzipper unzipper("zipfile.zip");
unzipper.extractEntryToMemory("entry name", unzipped_entry);
unzipper.close();

Note: Methods extract, extractEntry, extractEntryToMemory return a boolean indicating the success (true) or the failure (false).

Linking Zipper to your project

In your project add the needed headers in your c++ files:

#include <zipper/unzipper.h>
#include <zipper/zipper.h>

There are several ways to link your project against Zipper:

Straight forward: g++ -W -Wall -I/usr/local/include main.cpp -o prog -L/usr/local/lib/ -lZipper -lz. Note: you may have to adapt /usr/local to your installation directory (see the previous section Installing). You can also adapt and export your environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH (via you .bashrc for example).
Pkg-config is a better alternative to the previous command:

g++ -W -Wall main.cpp -o prog `pkg-config zipper --cflags --libs`

Indeed pkg-config knows for you where to find libraries and, by default, it will choose the shared library. In the case it is not present then the static library will be chosen. You can force choosing the static library with pkg-config libZipper --static --libs

Makefile: set LDFLAGS to pkg-config zipper --libs and set CPPFLAGS to pkg-config zipper --cflags
CMake: Simply place zipper in your project hieracy, and then use add_subdirectory(zipper) or whatever you called the zipper folder. Then link it with Zipper/staticZipper

Project(projZipper)

add_subdirectory(zipper)

add_executable(projZipper main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(
    projZipper
    PUBLIC
    staticZipper
)

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