IO::Compress::Zip - Write zip files/buffers
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my $status = zip $input => $output [,OPTS]
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new( $output [,OPTS] )
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
$z->print($string);
$z->printf($format, $string);
$z->write($string);
$z->syswrite($string [, $length, $offset]);
$z->flush();
$z->tell();
$z->eof();
$z->seek($position, $whence);
$z->binmode();
$z->fileno();
$z->opened();
$z->autoflush();
$z->input_line_number();
$z->newStream( [OPTS] );
$z->deflateParams();
$z->close() ;
$ZipError ;
# IO::File mode
print $z $string;
printf $z $format, $string;
tell $z
eof $z
seek $z, $position, $whence
binmode $z
fileno $z
close $z ;
This module provides a Perl interface that allows writing zip compressed data to files or buffer.
The primary purpose of this module is to provide streaming write access to zip files and buffers.
At present the following compression methods are supported by IO::Compress::Zip
To write Bzip2 content, the module IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2
must be installed.
To write LZMA content, the module IO::Uncompress::UnLzma
must be installed.
To write Zstandard content, the module IO::Compress::Zstd
must be installed.
To write Xz content, the module IO::Uncompress::UnXz
must be installed.
For reading zip files/buffers, see the companion module IO::Uncompress::Unzip.
A top-level function, zip
, is provided to carry out "one-shot" compression between buffers and/or files. For finer control over the compression process, see the "OO Interface" section.
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
zip $input_filename_or_reference => $output_filename_or_reference [,OPTS]
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
The functional interface needs Perl5.005 or better.
zip
expects at least two parameters, $input_filename_or_reference
and $output_filename_or_reference
and zero or more optional parameters (see "Optional Parameters")
$input_filename_or_reference
parameterThe parameter, $input_filename_or_reference
, is used to define the source of the uncompressed data.
It can take one of the following forms:
If the $input_filename_or_reference
parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for reading and the input data will be read from it.
If the $input_filename_or_reference
parameter is a filehandle, the input data will be read from it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard input.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is a scalar reference, the input data will be read from $$input_filename_or_reference
.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is an array reference, each element in the array must be a filename.
The input data will be read from each file in turn.
The complete array will be walked to ensure that it only contains valid filenames before any data is compressed.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is a string that is delimited by the characters "<" and ">" zip
will assume that it is an input fileglob string. The input is the list of files that match the fileglob.
See File::GlobMapper for more details.
If the $input_filename_or_reference
parameter is any other type, undef
will be returned.
In addition, if $input_filename_or_reference
corresponds to a filename from the filesystem, a number of zip file header fields will be populated by default using the following attributes from the input file
the full filename contained in $input_filename_or_reference
the file protection attributes
the UID/GID for the file
the file timestamps
If you do not want to use these defaults they can be overridden by explicitly setting one, or more, of the Name
, Time
, TextFlag
, ExtAttr
, exUnixN
and exTime
options or by setting the Minimal
parameter.
$output_filename_or_reference
parameterThe parameter $output_filename_or_reference
is used to control the destination of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of these forms.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for writing and the compressed data will be written to it.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is a filehandle, the compressed data will be written to it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard output.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is a scalar reference, the compressed data will be stored in $$output_filename_or_reference
.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is an array reference, the compressed data will be pushed onto the array.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is a string that is delimited by the characters "<" and ">" zip
will assume that it is an output fileglob string. The output is the list of files that match the fileglob.
When $output_filename_or_reference
is an fileglob string, $input_filename_or_reference
must also be a fileglob string. Anything else is an error.
See File::GlobMapper for more details.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is any other type, undef
will be returned.
When $input_filename_or_reference
maps to multiple files/buffers and $output_filename_or_reference
is a single file/buffer the input files/buffers will each be stored in $output_filename_or_reference
as a distinct entry.
The optional parameters for the one-shot function zip
are (for the most part) identical to those used with the OO interface defined in the "Constructor Options" section. The exceptions are listed below
AutoClose => 0|1
This option applies to any input or output data streams to zip
that are filehandles.
If AutoClose
is specified, and the value is true, it will result in all input and/or output filehandles being closed once zip
has completed.
This parameter defaults to 0.
BinModeIn => 0|1
This option is now a no-op. All files will be read in binmode.
Append => 0|1
The behaviour of this option is dependent on the type of output data stream.
A Buffer
If Append
is enabled, all compressed data will be append to the end of the output buffer. Otherwise the output buffer will be cleared before any compressed data is written to it.
A Filename
If Append
is enabled, the file will be opened in append mode. Otherwise the contents of the file, if any, will be truncated before any compressed data is written to it.
A Filehandle
If Append
is enabled, the filehandle will be positioned to the end of the file via a call to seek
before any compressed data is written to it. Otherwise the file pointer will not be moved.
When Append
is specified, and set to true, it will append all compressed data to the output data stream.
So when the output is a filehandle it will carry out a seek to the eof before writing any compressed data. If the output is a filename, it will be opened for appending. If the output is a buffer, all compressed data will be appended to the existing buffer.
Conversely when Append
is not specified, or it is present and is set to false, it will operate as follows.
When the output is a filename, it will truncate the contents of the file before writing any compressed data. If the output is a filehandle its position will not be changed. If the output is a buffer, it will be wiped before any compressed data is output.
Defaults to 0.
Here are a few example that show the capabilities of the module.
This very simple command line example demonstrates the streaming capabilities of the module. The code reads data from STDIN, compresses it, and writes the compressed data to STDOUT.
$ echo hello world | perl -MIO::Compress::Zip=zip -e 'zip \*STDIN => \*STDOUT' >output.zip
The special filename "-" can be used as a standin for both \*STDIN
and \*STDOUT
, so the above can be rewritten as
$ echo hello world | perl -MIO::Compress::Zip=zip -e 'zip "-" => "-"' >output.zip
One problem with creating a zip archive directly from STDIN can be demonstrated by looking at the contents of the zip file, output.zip, that we have just created.
$ unzip -l output.zip
Archive: output.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
12 2019-08-16 22:21
--------- -------
12 1 file
The archive member (filename) used is the empty string.
If that doesn't suit your needs, you can explicitly set the filename used in the zip archive by specifying the Name option, like so
echo hello world | perl -MIO::Compress::Zip=zip -e 'zip "-" => "-", Name => "hello.txt"' >output.zip
Now the contents of the zip file looks like this
$ unzip -l output.zip
Archive: output.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
12 2019-08-16 22:22 hello.txt
--------- -------
12 1 file
To read the contents of the file file1.txt
and write the compressed data to the file file1.txt.zip
.
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my $input = "file1.txt";
zip $input => "$input.zip"
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
To read from an existing Perl filehandle, $input
, and write the compressed data to a buffer, $buffer
.
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
use IO::File ;
my $input = IO::File->new( "<file1.txt" )
or die "Cannot open 'file1.txt': $!\n" ;
my $buffer ;
zip $input => \$buffer
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
To create a zip file, output.zip
, that contains the compressed contents of the files alpha.txt
and beta.txt
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
zip [ 'alpha.txt', 'beta.txt' ] => 'output.zip'
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
Alternatively, rather than having to explicitly name each of the files that you want to compress, you could use a fileglob to select all the txt
files in the current directory, as follows
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my @files = <*.txt>;
zip \@files => 'output.zip'
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
or more succinctly
zip [ <*.txt> ] => 'output.zip'
or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n";
The format of the constructor for IO::Compress::Zip
is shown below
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new( $output [,OPTS] )
or die "IO::Compress::Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
The constructor takes one mandatory parameter, $output
, defined below and zero or more OPTS
, defined in "Constructor Options".
It returns an IO::Compress::Zip
object on success and undef
on failure. The variable $ZipError
will contain an error message on failure.
If you are running Perl 5.005 or better the object, $z
, returned from IO::Compress::Zip can be used exactly like an IO::File filehandle. This means that all normal output file operations can be carried out with $z
. For example, to write to a compressed file/buffer you can use either of these forms
$z->print("hello world\n");
print $z "hello world\n";
Below is a simple exaple of using the OO interface to create an output file myfile.zip
and write some data to it.
my $filename = "myfile.zip";
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new($filename)
or die "IO::Compress::Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
$z->print("abcde");
$z->close();
See the "Examples" for more.
The mandatory parameter $output
is used to control the destination of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of these forms.
If the $output
parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for writing and the compressed data will be written to it.
If the $output
parameter is a filehandle, the compressed data will be written to it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard output.
If $output
is a scalar reference, the compressed data will be stored in $$output
.
If the $output
parameter is any other type, IO::Compress::Zip
::new will return undef.
OPTS
is any combination of zero or more the following options:
AutoClose => 0|1
This option is only valid when the $output
parameter is a filehandle. If specified, and the value is true, it will result in the $output
being closed once either the close
method is called or the IO::Compress::Zip
object is destroyed.
This parameter defaults to 0.
Append => 0|1
Opens $output
in append mode.
The behaviour of this option is dependent on the type of $output
.
A Buffer
If $output
is a buffer and Append
is enabled, all compressed data will be append to the end of $output
. Otherwise $output
will be cleared before any data is written to it.
A Filename
If $output
is a filename and Append
is enabled, the file will be opened in append mode. Otherwise the contents of the file, if any, will be truncated before any compressed data is written to it.
A Filehandle
If $output
is a filehandle, the file pointer will be positioned to the end of the file via a call to seek
before any compressed data is written to it. Otherwise the file pointer will not be moved.
This parameter defaults to 0.
A quick bit of zip file terminology -- A zip archive consists of one or more archive members, where each member has an associated filename, known as the archive member name.
The options listed in this section control how the archive member name (or filename) is stored the zip archive.
Name => $string
This option is used to explicitly set the archive member name in the zip archive to $string
. Most of the time you don't need to make use of this option. By default when adding a filename to the zip archive, the archive member name will match the filename.
You should only need to use this option if you want the archive member name to be different from the uncompressed filename or when the input is a filehandle or a buffer.
The default behaviour for what archive member name is used when the Name
option is not specified depends on the form of the $input
parameter:
If the $input
parameter is a filename, the value of $input
will be used for the archive member name .
If the $input
parameter is not a filename, the archive member name will be an empty string.
Note that both the CanonicalName
and FilterName
options can modify the value used for the archive member name.
Also note that you should set the Efs
option to true if you are working with UTF8 filenames.
CanonicalName => 0|1
This option controls whether the archive member name is normalized into Unix format before being written to the zip file.
It is recommended that you enable this option unless you really need to create a non-standard Zip file.
This is what APPNOTE.TXT has to say on what should be stored in the zip filename header field.
The name of the file, with optional relative path.
The path stored should not contain a drive or
device letter, or a leading slash. All slashes
should be forward slashes '/' as opposed to
backwards slashes '\' for compatibility with Amiga
and UNIX file systems etc.
This option defaults to false.
FilterName => sub { ... }
This option allow the archive member name to be modified before it is written to the zip file.
This option takes a parameter that must be a reference to a sub. On entry to the sub the $_
variable will contain the name to be filtered. If no filename is available $_
will contain an empty string.
The value of $_
when the sub returns will be used as the archive member name.
Note that if CanonicalName
is enabled, a normalized filename will be passed to the sub.
If you use FilterName
to modify the filename, it is your responsibility to keep the filename in Unix format.
Although this option can be used with the OO interface, it is of most use with the one-shot interface. For example, the code below shows how FilterName
can be used to remove the path component from a series of filenames before they are stored in $zipfile
.
sub compressTxtFiles
{
my $zipfile = shift ;
my $dir = shift ;
zip [ <$dir/*.txt> ] => $zipfile,
FilterName => sub { s[^$dir/][] } ;
}
Efs => 0|1
This option controls setting of the "Language Encoding Flag" (EFS) in the zip archive. When set, the filename and comment fields for the zip archive MUST be valid UTF-8.
If the string used for the filename and/or comment is not valid UTF-8 when this option is true, the script will die with a "wide character" error.
Note that this option only works with Perl 5.8.4 or better.
This option defaults to false.
Minimal => 1|0
If specified, this option will disable the creation of all extra fields in the zip local and central headers. So the exTime
, exUnix2
, exUnixN
, ExtraFieldLocal
and ExtraFieldCentral
options will be ignored.
This parameter defaults to 0.
Stream => 0|1
This option controls whether the zip file/buffer output is created in streaming mode.
Note that when outputting to a file with streaming mode disabled (Stream
is 0), the output file must be seekable.
The default is 1.
Zip64 => 0|1
Create a Zip64 zip file/buffer. This option is used if you want to store files larger than 4 Gig or store more than 64K files in a single zip archive.
Zip64
will be automatically set, as needed, if working with the one-shot interface when the input is either a filename or a scalar reference.
If you intend to manipulate the Zip64 zip files created with this module using an external zip/unzip, make sure that it supports Zip64.
In particular, if you are using Info-Zip you need to have zip version 3.x or better to update a Zip64 archive and unzip version 6.x to read a zip64 archive.
The default is 0.
Defines the compression level used by zlib. The value should either be a number between 0 and 9 (0 means no compression and 9 is maximum compression), or one of the symbolic constants defined below.
Z_NO_COMPRESSION
Z_BEST_SPEED
Z_BEST_COMPRESSION
Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION
The default is Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION.
Note, these constants are not imported by IO::Compress::Zip
by default.
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:strategy);
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:constants);
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
Defines the strategy used to tune the compression. Use one of the symbolic constants defined below.
Z_FILTERED
Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
Z_RLE
Z_FIXED
Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY
The default is Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY.
BlockSize100K => number
Specify the number of 100K blocks bzip2 uses during compression.
Valid values are from 1 to 9, where 9 is best compression.
This option is only valid if the Method
is ZIP_CM_BZIP2. It is ignored otherwise.
The default is 1.
WorkFactor => number
Specifies how much effort bzip2 should take before resorting to a slower fallback compression algorithm.
Valid values range from 0 to 250, where 0 means use the default value 30.
This option is only valid if the Method
is ZIP_CM_BZIP2. It is ignored otherwise.
The default is 0.
Preset => number
Used to choose the LZMA compression preset.
Valid values are 0-9 and LZMA_PRESET_DEFAULT
.
0 is the fastest compression with the lowest memory usage and the lowest compression.
9 is the slowest compression with the highest memory usage but with the best compression.
This option is only valid if the Method
is ZIP_CM_LZMA. It is ignored otherwise.
Defaults to LZMA_PRESET_DEFAULT
(6).
Extreme => 0|1
Makes LZMA compression a lot slower, but a small compression gain.
This option is only valid if the Method
is ZIP_CM_LZMA. It is ignored otherwise.
Defaults to 0.
Time => $number
Sets the last modified time field in the zip header to $number.
This field defaults to the time the IO::Compress::Zip
object was created if this option is not specified and the $input
parameter is not a filename.
ExtAttr => $attr
This option controls the "external file attributes" field in the central header of the zip file. This is a 4 byte field.
If you are running a Unix derivative this value defaults to
0100644 << 16
This should allow read/write access to any files that are extracted from the zip file/buffer`.
For all other systems it defaults to 0.
exTime => [$atime, $mtime, $ctime]
This option expects an array reference with exactly three elements: $atime
, mtime
and $ctime
. These correspond to the last access time, last modification time and creation time respectively.
It uses these values to set the extended timestamp field (ID is "UT") in the local zip header using the three values, $atime, $mtime, $ctime. In addition it sets the extended timestamp field in the central zip header using $mtime
.
If any of the three values is undef
that time value will not be used. So, for example, to set only the $mtime
you would use this
exTime => [undef, $mtime, undef]
If the Minimal
option is set to true, this option will be ignored.
By default no extended time field is created.
exUnix2 => [$uid, $gid]
This option expects an array reference with exactly two elements: $uid
and $gid
. These values correspond to the numeric User ID (UID) and Group ID (GID) of the owner of the files respectively.
When the exUnix2
option is present it will trigger the creation of a Unix2 extra field (ID is "Ux") in the local zip header. This will be populated with $uid
and $gid
. An empty Unix2 extra field will also be created in the central zip header.
Note - The UID & GID are stored as 16-bit integers in the "Ux" field. Use exUnixN
if your UID or GID are 32-bit.
If the Minimal
option is set to true, this option will be ignored.
By default no Unix2 extra field is created.
exUnixN => [$uid, $gid]
This option expects an array reference with exactly two elements: $uid
and $gid
. These values correspond to the numeric User ID (UID) and Group ID (GID) of the owner of the files respectively.
When the exUnixN
option is present it will trigger the creation of a UnixN extra field (ID is "ux") in both the local and central zip headers. This will be populated with $uid
and $gid
. The UID & GID are stored as 32-bit integers.
If the Minimal
option is set to true, this option will be ignored.
By default no UnixN extra field is created.
Comment => $comment
Stores the contents of $comment
in the Central File Header of the zip file.
Set the Efs
option to true if you want to store a UTF8 comment.
By default, no comment field is written to the zip file.
ZipComment => $comment
Stores the contents of $comment
in the End of Central Directory record of the zip file.
By default, no comment field is written to the zip file.
Method => $method
Controls which compression method is used. At present the compression methods supported are: Store (no compression at all), Deflate, Bzip2, Zstd, Xz and Lzma.
The symbols ZIP_CM_STORE, ZIP_CM_DEFLATE, ZIP_CM_BZIP2, ZIP_CM_ZSTD, ZIP_CM_XZ and ZIP_CM_LZMA are used to select the compression method.
These constants are not imported by IO::Compress::Zip
by default.
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:zip_method);
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:constants);
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
Note that to create Bzip2 content, the module IO::Compress::Bzip2
must be installed. A fatal error will be thrown if you attempt to create Bzip2 content when IO::Compress::Bzip2
is not available.
Note that to create Lzma content, the module IO::Compress::Lzma
must be installed. A fatal error will be thrown if you attempt to create Lzma content when IO::Compress::Lzma
is not available.
Note that to create Xz content, the module IO::Compress::Xz
must be installed. A fatal error will be thrown if you attempt to create Xz content when IO::Compress::Xz
is not available.
Note that to create Zstd content, the module IO::Compress::Zstd
must be installed. A fatal error will be thrown if you attempt to create Zstd content when IO::Compress::Zstd
is not available.
The default method is ZIP_CM_DEFLATE.
TextFlag => 0|1
This parameter controls the setting of a bit in the zip central header. It is used to signal that the data stored in the zip file/buffer is probably text.
In one-shot mode this flag will be set to true if the Perl -T
operator thinks the file contains text.
The default is 0.
ExtraFieldLocal => $data
ExtraFieldCentral => $data
The ExtraFieldLocal
option is used to store additional metadata in the local header for the zip file/buffer. The ExtraFieldCentral
does the same for the matching central header.
An extra field consists of zero or more subfields. Each subfield consists of a two byte header followed by the subfield data.
The list of subfields can be supplied in any of the following formats
ExtraFieldLocal => [$id1, $data1,
$id2, $data2,
...
]
ExtraFieldLocal => [ [$id1 => $data1],
[$id2 => $data2],
...
]
ExtraFieldLocal => { $id1 => $data1,
$id2 => $data2,
...
}
Where $id1
, $id2
are two byte subfield ID's.
If you use the hash syntax, you have no control over the order in which the ExtraSubFields are stored, plus you cannot have SubFields with duplicate ID.
Alternatively the list of subfields can by supplied as a scalar, thus
ExtraField => $rawdata
In this case IO::Compress::Zip
will check that $rawdata
consists of zero or more conformant sub-fields.
The Extended Time field (ID "UT"), set using the exTime
option, and the Unix2 extra field (ID "Ux), set using the exUnix2
option, are examples of extra fields.
If the Minimal
option is set to true, this option will be ignored.
The maximum size of an extra field 65535 bytes.
Strict => 0|1
This is a placeholder option.
This very simple command line example demonstrates the streaming capabilities of the module. The code reads data from STDIN or all the files given on the commandline, compresses it, and writes the compressed data to STDOUT.
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new("-", Stream => 1)
or die "IO::Compress::Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
while (<>) {
$z->print("abcde");
}
$z->close();
Note the use of "-"
to means STDOUT
. Alternatively you can use \*STDOUT
.
One problem with creating a zip archive directly from STDIN can be demonstrated by looking at the contents of the zip file, output.zip, that we have just created (assumg you have redirected it to a file called output.zip
).
$ unzip -l output.zip
Archive: output.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
12 2019-08-16 22:21
--------- -------
12 1 file
The archive member (filename) used is the empty string.
If that doesn't suit your needs, you can explicitly set the filename used in the zip archive by specifying the Name option, like so
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new("-", Name => "hello.txt", Stream => 1)
Now the contents of the zip file looks like this
$ unzip -l output.zip
Archive: output.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
12 2019-08-16 22:22 hello.txt
--------- -------
12 1 file
To read the contents of the file file1.txt
and write the compressed data to the file file1.txt.zip
there are a few options
Start by creating the compression object and opening the input file
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my $input = "file1.txt";
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new("file1.txt.zip")
or die "IO::Compress::Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
# open the input file
open my $fh, "<", "file1.txt"
or die "Cannot open file1.txt: $!\n";
# loop through the input file & write to the compressed file
while (<$fh>) {
$z->print($_);
}
# not forgetting to close the compressed file
$z->close();
To create a zip file, output.zip
, that contains the compressed contents of the files alpha.txt
and beta.txt
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;
my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new("output.zip", Name => "alpha.txt")
or die "IO::Compress::Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
# open the input file
open my $fh, "<", "file1.txt"
or die "Cannot open file1.txt: $!\n";
# loop through the input file & write to the compressed file
while (<$fh>) {
$z->print($_);
}
# move to next file
$z->newStream(Name => "beta.txt")
while (<$fh>) {
$z->print($_);
}
$z->close();
Usage is
$z->print($data)
print $z $data
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter. This has the same behaviour as the print
built-in.
Returns true if successful.
Usage is
$z->printf($format, $data)
printf $z $format, $data
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns true if successful.
Usage is
$z->syswrite $data
$z->syswrite $data, $length
$z->syswrite $data, $length, $offset
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or undef
if unsuccessful.
Usage is
$z->write $data
$z->write $data, $length
$z->write $data, $length, $offset
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or undef
if unsuccessful.
Usage is
$z->flush;
$z->flush($flush_type);
Flushes any pending compressed data to the output file/buffer.
This method takes an optional parameter, $flush_type
, that controls how the flushing will be carried out. By default the $flush_type
used is Z_FINISH
. Other valid values for $flush_type
are Z_NO_FLUSH
, Z_SYNC_FLUSH
, Z_FULL_FLUSH
and Z_BLOCK
. It is strongly recommended that you only set the flush_type
parameter if you fully understand the implications of what it does - overuse of flush
can seriously degrade the level of compression achieved. See the zlib
documentation for details.
Returns true on success.
Usage is
$z->tell()
tell $z
Returns the uncompressed file offset.
Usage is
$z->eof();
eof($z);
Returns true if the close
method has been called.
$z->seek($position, $whence);
seek($z, $position, $whence);
Provides a sub-set of the seek
functionality, with the restriction that it is only legal to seek forward in the output file/buffer. It is a fatal error to attempt to seek backward.
Empty parts of the file/buffer will have NULL (0x00) bytes written to them.
The $whence
parameter takes one the usual values, namely SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END.
Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.
Usage is
$z->binmode
binmode $z ;
This is a noop provided for completeness.
$z->opened()
Returns true if the object currently refers to a opened file/buffer.
my $prev = $z->autoflush()
my $prev = $z->autoflush(EXPR)
If the $z
object is associated with a file or a filehandle, this method returns the current autoflush setting for the underlying filehandle. If EXPR
is present, and is non-zero, it will enable flushing after every write/print operation.
If $z
is associated with a buffer, this method has no effect and always returns undef
.
Note that the special variable $|
cannot be used to set or retrieve the autoflush setting.
$z->input_line_number()
$z->input_line_number(EXPR)
This method always returns undef
when compressing.
$z->fileno()
fileno($z)
If the $z
object is associated with a file or a filehandle, fileno
will return the underlying file descriptor. Once the close
method is called fileno
will return undef
.
If the $z
object is associated with a buffer, this method will return undef
.
$z->close() ;
close $z ;
Flushes any pending compressed data and then closes the output file/buffer.
For most versions of Perl this method will be automatically invoked if the IO::Compress::Zip object is destroyed (either explicitly or by the variable with the reference to the object going out of scope). The exceptions are Perl versions 5.005 through 5.00504 and 5.8.0. In these cases, the close
method will be called automatically, but not until global destruction of all live objects when the program is terminating.
Therefore, if you want your scripts to be able to run on all versions of Perl, you should call close
explicitly and not rely on automatic closing.
Returns true on success, otherwise 0.
If the AutoClose
option has been enabled when the IO::Compress::Zip object was created, and the object is associated with a file, the underlying file will also be closed.
Usage is
$z->newStream( [OPTS] )
Closes the current compressed data stream and starts a new one.
OPTS consists of any of the options that are available when creating the $z
object.
See the "Constructor Options" section for more details.
Usage is
$z->deflateParams
TODO
A number of symbolic constants are required by some methods in IO::Compress::Zip
. None are imported by default.
Imports zip
, $ZipError
and all symbolic constants that can be used by IO::Compress::Zip
. Same as doing this
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError :constants) ;
Import all symbolic constants. Same as doing this
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:flush :level :strategy :zip_method) ;
These symbolic constants are used by the flush
method.
Z_NO_FLUSH
Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH
Z_SYNC_FLUSH
Z_FULL_FLUSH
Z_FINISH
Z_BLOCK
These symbolic constants are used by the Level
option in the constructor.
Z_NO_COMPRESSION
Z_BEST_SPEED
Z_BEST_COMPRESSION
Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION
These symbolic constants are used by the Strategy
option in the constructor.
Z_FILTERED
Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
Z_RLE
Z_FIXED
Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY
These symbolic constants are used by the Method
option in the constructor.
ZIP_CM_STORE
ZIP_CM_DEFLATE
ZIP_CM_BZIP2
General feedback/questions/bug reports should be sent to https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/issues (preferred) or https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=IO-Compress.
Compress::Zlib, IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, IO::Compress::Deflate, IO::Uncompress::Inflate, IO::Compress::RawDeflate, IO::Uncompress::RawInflate, IO::Compress::Bzip2, IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2, IO::Compress::Lzma, IO::Uncompress::UnLzma, IO::Compress::Xz, IO::Uncompress::UnXz, IO::Compress::Lzip, IO::Uncompress::UnLzip, IO::Compress::Lzop, IO::Uncompress::UnLzop, IO::Compress::Lzf, IO::Uncompress::UnLzf, IO::Compress::Zstd, IO::Uncompress::UnZstd, IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate, IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress
File::GlobMapper, Archive::Zip, Archive::Tar, IO::Zlib
For RFC 1950, 1951 and 1952 see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1950, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1951 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1952
The zlib compression library was written by Jean-loup Gailly gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu
and Mark Adler madler@alumni.caltech.edu
.
The primary site for the zlib compression library is http://www.zlib.org.
The primary site for the zlib-ng compression library is https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng.
The primary site for gzip is http://www.gzip.org.
This module was written by Paul Marquess, pmqs@cpan.org
.
See the Changes file.
Copyright (c) 2005-2024 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.