how to read an image from a zipfile

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

hello, i have a zip file that contains images, which i want to load so that they exist as BufferedImages.

i already got so far, that i have a ZipEntry and the corresponding BufferedReader but how can i convert the stream from the BufferedReader into a suitable format that is accepted by the ImageIO class?

thanks!

#2

My first thought is to rename it to .jar, add it to your classpath and load the images as you would normally do.

#3

erikd, thanks for your help. that would be an option. maybe with loadRessourceAsStream().

but still, i would very much like to know how it is done by using the java zip-api.

thanks!

#4

Something like this, I think:


        ZipFile zip = new ZipFile("images.zip");
        ZipEntry ze = zip.getEntry("myImage.png");
        InputStream zis = zip.getInputStream(ze);
        BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(zis);
#5

thanks a lot!
that worked!!!

#6

My first thought is to rename it to .jar, add it to your classpath[…]

You can also add Zips (and directories) to the cp.