How to compress the files in Blackberry? - blackberry

Question

In my application I used html template and images for browser field and saved in the sdcard . Now I want to compress that html,image files and send to the PHP server. How can I compress that files and send to server? Provide me some samples that may help lot.
i tried this way... my code is
EDIT:
private void zipthefile() {
String out_path = "file:///SDCard/" + "newtemplate.zip";
String in_path = "file:///SDCard/" + "newtemplate.html";
InputStream inputStream = null;
GZIPOutputStream os = null;
try {
FileConnection fileConnection = (FileConnection) Connector
.open(in_path);//read the file from path
if (fileConnection.exists()) {
inputStream = fileConnection.openInputStream();
}
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
FileConnection path = (FileConnection) Connector
.open(out_path,
Connector.READ_WRITE);//create the out put file path
if (!path.exists()) {
path.create();
}
os = new GZIPOutputStream(path.openOutputStream());// for create the gzip file
int c;
while ((c = inputStream.read()) != -1) {
os.write(c);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Dialog.alert("" + e.toString());
} finally {
if (inputStream != null) {
try {
inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Dialog.alert("" + e.toString());
}
}
if (os != null) {
try {
os.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Dialog.alert("" + e.toString());
}
}
}
}
this code working fine for single file but i want to compress all the file(more the one file)in the folder .

Answer 1

In case you are not familiar with them, I can tell you that in Java the stream classes follow the Decorator Pattern. These are meant to be piped to other streams to perform additional tasks. For instance, a FileOutputStream allows you to write bytes to a file, if you decorate it with a BufferedOutputStream then you get also buffering (big chunks of data are stored in RAM before being finally written to disc). Or if you decorate it with a GZIPOutputStream then you get also compression.
Example:
//To read compressed file:
InputStream is = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream("full_compressed_file_path_here"));
//To write to a compressed file:
OutputStream os = new GZIPOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("full_compressed_file_path_here"));
This is a good tutorial covering basic I/O . Despite being written for JavaSE, you'll find it useful since most things work the same in BlackBerry.
In the API you have these classes available:
GZIPInputStream
GZIPOutputStream
ZLibInputStream
ZLibOutputStream
If you need to convert between streams and byte array use IOUtilities class or ByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayInputStream.