Zip Delete
zipdel removes files from the specified zipfile. WAR, JAR and EAR files are simply ZIP files with a different extension. You can thus use zipdel (and zipadd and zipget) 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 Endpoints.
zipdel takes a mandatory named parameter. Other parameters can be specified depending on how the files are being removed from the zipfile:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| zipfile: | Mandatory. The name of the zipfile in the DropZone from which files should be deleted. If the specified file does not exist in the DropZone, a run time error is thrown. |
| files: | Optional. If specified, refers to either an array or list of _DropZone_File objects. Each file in the array or list is deleted from the specified zipfile. The filename deleted from the zipfile is taken from the dzpath of the_DropZone_File object. Note: if the file referenced by the_DropZone_File object does not exist in the specified zipfile, then a run-time error is thrown. |
| file: | Optional. If specified, refers to either a _DropZone_File object or a string giving the name of a file to delete from the zipfile. If the file parameter refers to a_DropZone_File object, then the filename used is taken from the dzpath of that object. If the file parameter is a string, then it is taken to be a path to a file within the zipfile. In either case, the specified file is deleted from the specified zipfile. If the file referenced does not exist in the zipfile then a run-time error is thrown. |
NOTE: You can call dir() on a _DropZone_File object representing a zipfile to return an array of_DropZone_File objects that you can then pass to zipdel.
Examples
Remove an unused library from a WAR file:
zipdel(zipfile: "myapp.war", file: "WEB-INF/lib/asm-5.0.3.jar");
Remove all txt files from a web archive:
// get a list of myapp.war files in the _DropZone_ (probably only one)
set warfilearr = ${_DropZone_.find("myapp.war")};
// Need to iterate since find returns an array keyed by filename.
// However, if there's only one "myapp.war", this will only execute once.
iterate(warfile: $warfilearr) {
// get list of files in myapp.war
set files = ${warfile.dir()};
// filter the list to only include txt files.
set files = files.filter("[.]txt$");
// Now delete all those files
zipdel(zipfile: "myapp.war", files: $files);
}
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