(VBScript) Unzip Binary File to Stream

Demonstrates how to unzip a large binary file to a stream to allow the application to process the uncompressed bytes chunk by chunk.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This requires the Chilkat Zip API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Unlock Chilkat Zip for sample code.

set zip = CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

' First open a .zip.
success = zip.OpenZip("qa_data/zips/big.zip")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Get the entry to be unzipped to a stream..
set entry = CreateObject("Chilkat.ZipEntry")
success = zip.EntryAt(0,entry)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

set dataStream = CreateObject("Chilkat.Stream")

' unzipTask is a Chilkat.Task
Set unzipTask = entry.UnzipToStreamAsync(dataStream)
If (entry.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(entry.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Start the background unzip thread.
success = unzipTask.Run()

' We'll read the uncompressed data chunk-by-chunk and write to an output file.
set fac = CreateObject("Chilkat.FileAccess")
success = fac.OpenForWrite("qa_output/out.dat")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(fac.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Read the stream.  (this is reading the unzipped file data)
set bd = CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
Do While dataStream.EndOfStream <> 1
    ' Get the next chunk of decompressed bytes.
    success = dataStream.ReadBd(bd)
    ' Do something with it..
    ' In this simple example, we'll just write to the file.
    success = fac.FileWriteBd(bd,0,0)
    ' Clear for the next read.
    success = bd.Clear()
Loop

fac.FileClose 

outFile.WriteLine("Success.")

outFile.Close