Zip Add

zipadd adds a file (or a group of files) into a zip archive within the current DropZone. If the zip archive does not currently exist then zipadd will create it. WAR, JAR and EAR files are simply ZIP files with a different extension. You can thus use zipadd (and zipget and zipdel) with WAR, JAR and EAR files as well as with ZIP archives. This provides a powerful way of manipulating WAR, JAR and EAR files in the DropZone before onward deployment to the target Endpoint(s).

zipadd takes a mandatory named parameter. Other parameters can be specified depending on what is being added to the zipfile:

Examples*

Zip all the files in the DropZone into a zip archive and remove them from the DropZone. If this is done as a pre-action to a Component then the Component will deploy a single zipfile and not the individual files that were checked out for the Component items.

set dzfiles = ${_DropZone_.files};

zipadd(zipfile: "myapp.war", files: $dzfiles, delete: true);

Examples

Create a “readme.txt” file and include it in the web archive to be deployed:

using stream $readme {

echo "This is _Application_ ${_Application_.name}";

echo "It uses the following _Component_s:";

set complist = ${_Application_._Component_s};

iterate(comp: $complist) {

echo "${comp.name}";

}

echo "It was deployed by ${user.name}";

}

//

// Assuming the _Component_ is webapp.war, add the README.TXT

// file to the root of the WAR file.

//

zipadd(zipfile: "webapp.war", file: "README.TXT", stream: $readme);