Zip Task

## Zip

### Description

Creates a zipfile.

The basedir attribute is the reference directory from where to zip.

Note that file permissions will not be stored in the resulting zipfile.

It is possible to refine the set of files that are being zipped. This can be done with the includes, includesfile, excludes, excludesfile and defaultexcludes attributes. With the includes or includesfile attribute you specify the files you want to have included by using patterns. The exclude or excludesfile attribute is used to specify the files you want to have excluded. This is also done with patterns. And finally with the defaultexcludes attribute, you can specify whether you want to use default exclusions or not. See the section on directory based tasks, on how the inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to write patterns.

This task forms an implicit FileSet and supports all attributes of `<fileset>` (`dir` becomes `basedir`) as well as the nested `<include>`, `<exclude>` and `<patternset>` elements.

Or, you may place within it nested file sets, or references to file sets. In this case `basedir` is optional; the implicit file set is only used if `basedir` is set. You may use any mixture of the implicit file set (with `basedir` set, and optional attributes like `includes` and optional subelements like `<include>`); explicit nested `<fileset>` elements so long as at least one fileset total is specified. The ZIP file will only reflect the relative paths of files within each fileset. The Zip task and its derivatives know a special form of a fileset named zipfileset that has additional attributes (described below).

The Zip task also supports the merging of multiple zip files into the zip file. This is possible through either the src attribute of any nested filesets or by using the special nested fileset zipgroupfileset.

The `update` parameter controls what happens if the ZIP file already exists. When set to `yes`, the ZIP file is updated with the files specified. (New files are added; old files are replaced with the new versions.) When set to `no` (the default) the ZIP file is overwritten. Please note that ZIP files store file modification times with a granularity of two seconds. If a file is less than two seconds newer than the entry in the archive, Ant will not consider it newer.

The `whenempty` parameter controls what happens when no files match. If `skip` (the default), the ZIP is not created and a warning is issued. If `fail`, the ZIP is not created and the build is halted with an error. If `create`, an empty ZIP file (explicitly zero entries) is created, which should be recognized as such by compliant ZIP manipulation tools.

This task will now use the platform's default character encoding for filenames - this is consistent with the command line ZIP tools, but causes problems if you try to open them from within Java and your filenames contain non US-ASCII characters. Use the encoding attribute and set it to UTF8 to create zip files that can safely be read by Java.

Starting with Ant 1.5.2, <zip> can store Unix permissions inside the archive (see description of the filemode and dirmode attributes for <zipfileset>). Unfortunately there is no portable way to store these permissions. Ant uses the algorithm used by Info-Zip's implementation of the zip and unzip commands - these are the default versions of zip and unzip for many Unix and Unix-like systems.

### Parameters

Attribute | Description | Required
destfile | the zip-file to create. | Yes
zipfile | the deprecated old name of destfile. | Yes
basedir | the directory from which to zip the files. | No
compress | Not only store data but also compress them, defaults to true | No
encoding | The character encoding to use for filenames inside the zip file. For a list of possible values see http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/internat/encoding.doc.html. Defaults to the platform's default character encoding. | No
filesonly | Store only file entries, defaults to false | No
includes | comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be included. All files are included when omitted. | No
includesfile | the name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an include pattern | No
excludes | comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted. | No
excludesfile | the name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an exclude pattern | No
defaultexcludes | indicates whether default excludes should be used or not ("yes"/"no"). Default excludes are used when omitted. | No
update | indicates whether to update or overwrite the destination file if it already exists. Default is "false". | No
whenempty | behavior when no files match. Valid values are "fail", "skip", and "create". Default is "skip". | No
duplicate | behavior when a duplicate file is found. Valid values are "add", "preserve", and "fail". The default value is "add". | No

### Parameters specified as nested elements

#### fileset

The zip task supports any number of nested `<fileset>` elements to specify the files to be included in the archive.

#### zipfileset

A `<zipfileset>` is a special form of a `<fileset>` that adds some extra functionality. It supports all attributes of `<fileset>` in addition to those listed below.

### Parameters

Attribute | Description | Required
prefix | all files in the fileset are prefixed with that path in the archive. | No
fullpath | the file described by the fileset is placed at that exact location in the archive. | No
src | may be used in place of the dir attribute to specify a zip file whose contents will be extracted and included in the archive. | No
filemode | A 3 digit octal string, specify the user, group and other modes in the standard Unix fashion. Only applies to plain files. Default is 644. since Ant 1.5.2. | No
dirmode | A 3 digit octal string, specify the user, group and other modes in the standard Unix fashion. Only applies to directories. Default is 755. since Ant 1.5.2. | No

The fullpath attribute can only be set for filesets that represent a single file. The prefix and fullpath attributes cannot both be set on the same fileset.

When using the src attribute, include and exclude patterns may be used to specify a subset of the zip file for inclusion in the archive as with the dir attribute.

#### zipgroupfileset

A `<zipgroupfileset>` allows for multiple zip files to be merged into the archive. Each file found in this fileset is added to the archive the same way that zipfileset src files are added.

### Examples

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip"
           basedir="htdocs/manual"
      />

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory into a file called `manual.zip` in the `${dist}` directory.

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip"
           basedir="htdocs/manual"
           update="true"
      />

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory into a file called `manual.zip` in the `${dist}` directory. If `manual.zip` doesn't exist, it is created; otherwise it is updated with the new/changed files.

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip"
           basedir="htdocs/manual"
           excludes="mydocs/**, **/todo.html"
      />

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory. Files in the directory `mydocs`, or files with the name `todo.html` are excluded.

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip"
           basedir="htdocs/manual"
           includes="api/**/*.html"
           excludes="**/todo.html"
      />

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory. Only html files under the directory `api` are zipped, and files with the name `todo.html` are excluded.

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip">
        <fileset dir="htdocs/manual"/>
        <fileset dir="." includes="ChangeLog.txt"/>
      </zip>

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory, and also adds the file `ChangeLog.txt` in the current directory. `ChangeLog.txt` will be added to the top of the ZIP file, just as if it had been located at `htdocs/manual/ChangeLog.txt`.

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip">
        <zipfileset dir="htdocs/manual" prefix="docs/user-guide"/>
        <zipfileset dir="." includes="ChangeLog27.txt" fullpath="docs/ChangeLog.txt"/>
        <zipfileset src="examples.zip" includes="**/*.html" prefix="docs/examples"/>
      </zip>

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory into the `docs/user-guide` directory in the archive, adds the file `ChangeLog27.txt` in the current directory as `docs/ChangeLog.txt`, and includes all the html files in `examples.zip` under `docs/examples`. The archive might end up containing the files:

        docs/user-guide/html/index.html
        docs/ChangeLog.txt
        docs/examples/index.html

The code

      <zip destfile="${dist}/manual.zip">
        <zipfileset dir="htdocs/manual" prefix="docs/user-guide"/>
        <zipgroupfileset dir="." includes="examples*.zip"/>
      </zip>

zips all files in the `htdocs/manual` directory into the `docs/user-guide` directory in the archive and includes all the files in any file that maches `examples*.zip`, such as all files within `examples1.zip` or `examples_for_brian.zip`.

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