Decompress a 7zip archive with multiple files & directories in Java

Question

I want to decompress a 7zip/lzma archive with multiple files & directories in Java. I tried to use the official 7zip SDK, but I failed, as my programming skills are not that advanced for this subject. However I fonud some libraries which make the support in Java easier, speaking of LzmaOutputStream/LzmaInputStream - However I don't know how to use those "streams" to decompress a multi-file archive. I am stuck.

Here is one of the libs:
http://jpz-log.info/archives/2009/08/26/lzma-java-version-1-0/

Answer 1

In the example, replace compressed with new File("PATH_TO_FILE"). The example code will yield an output stream, I suppose the LzmaOutputStream or the library has appropriate methods for converting the stream to binary or string.

By default Lzma is only a compression algorithm, not a file archiver like tar or zip. (Note: The 7-Zip program is a file archiver, but the library you linked to does not support file traversal and unpacking.

I would suggest using a well-supporter compression algorithm like Zip or gz. If you must use lzma you could use tar to build a file archive and then compress it with lzma. Or use zip with zero compression.

Here is a java TAR library.