How to list the files inside a JAR file?

Question

I have this code which reads all the files from a directory.

    File textFolder = new File(\"text_directory\");

    File [] texFiles = textFolder.listFiles         


        

Answer 1

One more for the road:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static java.nio.file.FileSystems.newFileSystem;
import static java.util.Collections.emptyMap;

public class ResourceWalker {
  private static final PathMatcher FILE_MATCHER =
      FileSystems.getDefault().getPathMatcher( "glob:**.ttf" );

  public static List walk( final String directory )
      throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
    final List filenames = new ArrayList<>();
    final var resource = ResourceWalker.class.getResource( directory );

    if( resource != null ) {
      final var uri = resource.toURI();
      final var path = uri.getScheme().equals( "jar" )
          ? newFileSystem( uri, emptyMap() ).getPath( directory )
          : Paths.get( uri );
      final var walk = Files.walk( path, 10 );

      for( final var it = walk.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
        final Path p = it.next();
        if( FILE_MATCHER.matches( p ) ) {
          filenames.add( p );
        }
      }
    }

    return filenames;
  }
}

This is a bit more flexible for matching specific filenames because it uses wildcard globbing.

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A more functional style:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import static java.nio.file.FileSystems.newFileSystem;
import static java.util.Collections.emptyMap;

/**
 * Responsible for finding file resources.
 */
public class ResourceWalker {
  private static final PathMatcher FILE_MATCHER =
      FileSystems.getDefault().getPathMatcher( "glob:**.ttf" );

  public static void walk( final String dirName, final Consumer f )
      throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
    final var resource = ResourceWalker.class.getResource( dirName );

    if( resource != null ) {
      final var uri = resource.toURI();
      final var path = uri.getScheme().equals( "jar" )
          ? newFileSystem( uri, emptyMap() ).getPath( dirName )
          : Paths.get( uri );
      final var walk = Files.walk( path, 10 );

      for( final var it = walk.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
        final Path p = it.next();
        if( FILE_MATCHER.matches( p ) ) {
          f.accept( p );
        }
      }
    }
  }
}