Zippex: An Open Source Zip Library for Apex
Zippex: An Open Source Zip Library for Apex
Zip files are broadly used to store, group, and transfer files across computer platforms. Unfortunately, there's no native zip support in Apex...until now. In this presentation, we will show you how we created an open source zip library, in native Apex, that brings support to zip and unzip files on the Lightning Platform, and discuss important considerations, such as governor limits and the lack of binary data operations, when creating a zip library in Apex. We will also demonstrate how to use this library to create and modify the contents of zip archives, and how you can leverage zip support to read and update Microsoft Word files.