Java 7z Seven Zip Example compress and decompress a file

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to compress files to 7z format recursively and decompress 7z files. 7-Zip also known as 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms.

Project Structure

Maven Dependencies

We use Apache Maven to manage our project dependencies. Make sure the following dependencies reside on the class-path.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
                             http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.memorynotfound.io.compression</groupId>
    <artifactId>7z</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>IO Compression - ${project.artifactId}</name>
    <url>https://memorynotfound.com</url>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.tukaani</groupId>
            <artifactId>xz</artifactId>
            <version>1.6</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.7.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Compress and Decompress 7z files Recursively

• Compressing files in 7z format: We use the SevenZOutputFile to compress files and/or directories into 7z format. We can add entries in the archive using the SevenZArchiveEntry.
• Decompressing 7z archive: We can read the 7z archive using the SevenZFile class. Next, we loop over the SevenZArchiveEntry using the SevenZArchiveEntry.getNextEntry() class and write the content to an FileOutputStream.

package com.memorynotfound.resource;

import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZArchiveEntry;
import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZFile;
import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZOutputFile;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class SevenZ {

    private SevenZ() {

    }

    public static void compress(String name, File... files) throws IOException {
        try (SevenZOutputFile out = new SevenZOutputFile(new File(name))){
            for (File file : files){
                addToArchiveCompression(out, file, ".");
            }
        }
    }

    public static void decompress(String in, File destination) throws IOException {
        SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(new File(in));
        SevenZArchiveEntry entry;
        while ((entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry()) != null){
            if (entry.isDirectory()){
                continue;
            }
            File curfile = new File(destination, entry.getName());
            File parent = curfile.getParentFile();
            if (!parent.exists()) {
                parent.mkdirs();
            }
            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(curfile);
            byte[] content = new byte[(int) entry.getSize()];
            sevenZFile.read(content, 0, content.length);
            out.write(content);
            out.close();
        }
    }

    private static void addToArchiveCompression(SevenZOutputFile out, File file, String dir) throws IOException {
        String name = dir + File.separator + file.getName();
        if (file.isFile()){
            SevenZArchiveEntry entry = out.createArchiveEntry(file, name);
            out.putArchiveEntry(entry);

            FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
            byte[] b = new byte[1024];
            int count = 0;
            while ((count = in.read(b)) > 0) {
                out.write(b, 0, count);
            }
            out.closeArchiveEntry();

        } else if (file.isDirectory()) {
            File[] children = file.listFiles();
            if (children != null){
                for (File child : children){
                    addToArchiveCompression(out, child, name);
                }
            }
        } else {
            System.out.println(file.getName() + " is not supported");
        }
    }
}

Java Zz Example

This program demonstrates the 7z archive compression decompression example.

package com.memorynotfound.resource;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class SevenZProgram {

    private static final String OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = "/tmp";
    private static final String TAR_GZIP_SUFFIX = ".7z";

    private static final String MULTIPLE_RESOURCES = "/example-multiple-resources";
    private static final String RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY = "/example-recursive-directory";

    private static final String MULTIPLE_RESOURCES_PATH = OUTPUT_DIRECTORY + MULTIPLE_RESOURCES + TAR_GZIP_SUFFIX;
    private static final String RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH = OUTPUT_DIRECTORY + RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY + TAR_GZIP_SUFFIX;


    public static void main(String... args) throws IOException {

        // class for resource classloading
        Class clazz = SevenZProgram.class;

        // get multiple resources files to compress
        File resource1 = new File(clazz.getResource("/in/resource1.txt").getFile());
        File resource2 = new File(clazz.getResource("/in/resource2.txt").getFile());
        File resource3 = new File(clazz.getResource("/in/resource3.txt").getFile());

        // compress multiple resources
        SevenZ.compress(MULTIPLE_RESOURCES_PATH, resource1, resource2, resource3);

        // decompress multiple resources
        SevenZ.decompress(MULTIPLE_RESOURCES_PATH, new File(OUTPUT_DIRECTORY + MULTIPLE_RESOURCES));



        // get directory file to compress
        File directory = new File(clazz.getResource("/in/dir").getFile());

        // compress recursive directory
        SevenZ.compress(RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH, directory);

        // decompress recursive directory
        SevenZ.decompress(RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH, new File(OUTPUT_DIRECTORY + RECURSIVE_DIRECTORY));
    }
}

Generated Files

Here is an example of the generated 7z archive with multiple files.

Here is an example of the generated 7z archive with recursive directory.

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