(Perl) Create Zip in a BinData Object

Recursively appends files in a directory tree and writes a zip archive into a Chilkat BinData object.

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use chilkat();

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$zip = chilkat::CkZip->new();

# Initialize the zip object.  Because we will never actually write a zip file to the filesystem,
# the filepath passed to NewZip does not matter.
$success = $zip->NewZip("x.zip");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Append a directory tree.  The call to AppendFiles does
# not read the file contents or append them to the zip
# object in memory.  It simply appends references
# to the files so that when WriteBd, WriteZip, or WriteZipAndClose 
# is called, the referenced files are streamed and compressed
# into the .zip output file (or BinData object).

$recurse = 1;
$success = $zip->AppendFiles("c:/temp/a/*",$recurse);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Write the zip archive into the bdZip object.
$bdZip = chilkat::CkBinData->new();
$success = $zip->WriteBd($bdZip);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $zip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# We could directly access the bytes of the zip archive, or perhaps
# get the zip bytes in base64 format.
$zipAsBase64 = $bdZip->getEncoded("base64");
print $zipAsBase64 . "\r\n";

# Or the zip can be used by some other Chilkat method call that accepts
# a BinData object as an argument.