I've successfully modified the contents of a (existing) zip file using the FileSystem provided by java 7, but when I tried to create a NEW zip file by this method it fails, with the error message that says: "zip END header not found", it is logical because of the way I'm doing it, first I create the file (Files.createFile) which is a completely empty file, and then I try to access to its file system , and since the file is empty its impossible to find any header inside the zip, my question is is there any way to create a new zip file completely empty using this method?; the hack that I've considered is adding an empty new ZipEntry to a the zip file and then using that new empty file to crate the file system based on it, but i really want to think that the guys of oracle implemented a better (easier) way to do this with nio and the filesystems...
this is my code (the error appears when creating the file system):
if (!zipLocation.toFile().exists()) {
if (creatingFile) {
Files.createFile(zipLocation);
}else {
return false;
}
} else if (zipLocation.toFile().exists() && !replacing) {
return false;
}
final FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(zipLocation, null);
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zipLocation is a Path
creatingFile is a boolean
ANSWER: in my particular case the answer given didn't work appropriately because of the spaces in the path, therefore i have to do it the way i didn't want to:
Files.createFile(zipLocation);
ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(zipLocation.toFile()));
out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(""));
out.closeEntry();
out.close();
it does not mean that the given answer is wrong, it just didn't work for my particular case