CkBz2 Java Reference Documentation

CkBz2

Current Version: 10.1.0

Requires Chilkat Bundle License

Provides the ability to create and unzip .bz2 compressed files using the BZip2 compression algorithm.

Object Creation

CkBz2 obj = new CkBz2();

Properties

AbortCurrent

boolean get_AbortCurrent();
void put_AbortCurrent(boolean newVal);

Introduced in version 9.5.0.58

When set to true, causes the currently running method to abort. Methods that always finish quickly (i.e.have no length file operations or network communications) are not affected. If no method is running, then this property is automatically reset to false when the next method is called. When the abort occurs, this property is reset to false. Both synchronous and asynchronous method calls can be aborted. (A synchronous method call could be aborted by setting this property from a separate thread.)

DebugLogFilePath

void get_DebugLogFilePath(CkString str);
String debugLogFilePath();
void put_DebugLogFilePath(String newVal);

If set to a file path, causes each Chilkat method or property call to automatically append it's LastErrorText to the specified log file. The information is appended such that if a hang or crash occurs, it is possible to see the context in which the problem occurred, as well as a history of all Chilkat calls up to the point of the problem. The VerboseLogging property can be set to provide more detailed information.

This property is typically used for debugging the rare cases where a Chilkat method call hangs or generates an exception that halts program execution (i.e. crashes). A hang or crash should generally never happen. The typical causes of a hang are:

a timeout related property was set to 0 to explicitly indicate that an infinite timeout is desired,
the hang is actually a hang within an event callback (i.e. it is a hang within the application code), or
there is an internal problem (bug) in the Chilkat code that causes the hang.

More Information and Examples

(Android™) Example showing how to use DebugLogFilePath.(Java) Example showing how to use DebugLogFilePath.

HeartbeatMs

int get_HeartbeatMs();
void put_HeartbeatMs(int newVal);

This is the number of milliseconds between each AbortCheck event callback. The AbortCheck callback allows an application to abort any compress or decompress operation prior to completion. If HeartbeatMs is 0, no AbortCheck event callbacks will occur.

LastErrorHtml

void get_LastErrorHtml(CkString str);
String lastErrorHtml();

Provides information in HTML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

LastErrorText

void get_LastErrorText(CkString str);
String lastErrorText();

Provides information in plain-text format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

More Information and Examples

Concept of LastErrorText LastErrorText Standard Information

LastErrorXml

void get_LastErrorXml(CkString str);
String lastErrorXml();

Provides information in XML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

LastMethodSuccess

boolean get_LastMethodSuccess();
void put_LastMethodSuccess(boolean newVal);

Indicate whether the last method call succeeded or failed. A value of true indicates success, a value of false indicates failure. This property is automatically set for method calls. It is not modified by property accesses. The property is automatically set to indicate success for the following types of method calls:

Any method that returns a string.
Any method returning a Chilkat object, binary bytes, or a date/time.
Any method returning a standard boolean status value where success = true and failure = false.
Any method returning an integer where failure is defined by a return value less than zero.

Note: Methods that do not fit the above requirements will always set this property equal to true. For example, a method that returns no value (such as a "void" in C++) will technically always succeed.

VerboseLogging

boolean get_VerboseLogging();
void put_VerboseLogging(boolean newVal);

If set to true, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is false. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

Version

void get_Version(CkString str);
String version();

Version of the component/library, such as "9.5.0.94"

More Information and Examples

(Android™) How to get the Chilkat version at runtime.(Java) How to get the Chilkat version at runtime.

Methods

CompressFile

boolean CompressFile(String inFilename, String toPath);

Compresses a file to create a BZip2 compressed file (.bz2).

Note: Both inFilename and toPath should be relative or absolute file paths (not just a path to a directory). For example "someDir1/someDir2/myFile.txt" or "c:/someDir1/myFile.bz2".

Returns true for success, false for failure.

More Information and Examples

(Android™) bz2 Compress File (Java) bz2 Compress File

CompressFileAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask CompressFileAsync(String inFilename, String toPath);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CompressFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

CompressFileToMem

boolean CompressFileToMem(String inFilename, CkByteData outData);

BZip2 compresses a file to an in-memory image of a .bz2 file.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

CompressFileToMemAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask CompressFileToMemAsync(String inFilename);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CompressFileToMem method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

CompressMemory

boolean CompressMemory(CkByteData inData, CkByteData outData);

Compresses in-memory data to an in-memory image of a .bz2 file.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

CompressMemoryAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask CompressMemoryAsync(CkByteData inData);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CompressMemory method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

CompressMemToFile

boolean CompressMemToFile(CkByteData inData, String toPath);

BZip2 compresses and creates a .bz2 file from in-memory data.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

CompressMemToFileAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask CompressMemToFileAsync(CkByteData inData, String toPath);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CompressMemToFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

LoadTaskCaller

boolean LoadTaskCaller(CkTask task);

Introduced in version 9.5.0.80

Loads the caller of the task's async method.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

UncompressFile

boolean UncompressFile(String inFilename, String toPath);

Unzips a .bz2 file.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

UncompressFileAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask UncompressFileAsync(String inFilename, String toPath);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the UncompressFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

UncompressFileToMem

boolean UncompressFileToMem(String inFilename, CkByteData outData);

Unzips a .bz2 file directly to memory.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

UncompressFileToMemAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask UncompressFileToMemAsync(String inFilename);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the UncompressFileToMem method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

UncompressMemory

boolean UncompressMemory(CkByteData inData, CkByteData outData);

Unzips from an in-memory image of a .bz2 file directly into memory.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

UncompressMemoryAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask UncompressMemoryAsync(CkByteData inData);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the UncompressMemory method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

UncompressMemToFile

boolean UncompressMemToFile(CkByteData inData, String toPath);

Unzips from an in-memory image of a .bz2 file to a file.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

UncompressMemToFileAsync ^{(Android™) (Java)}

CkTask UncompressMemToFileAsync(CkByteData inData, String toPath);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the UncompressMemToFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns nil on failure

Events

Chilkat supports event callbacks in Java (including Android) starting in version 9.5.0.52. To implement an event callback, your application would define and implement a class that derives from CkBaseProgress. Your application can implement methods to override some or all of the default/empty method implementations of the CkBaseProgress base class.

For example:

// Install an event callback handler to get progress events.
MyBaseProgress bzProgress = new MyBaseProgress();
http.put_EventCallbackObject(bzProgress);

MyBaseProgress example:

import com.chilkatsoft.CkBaseProgress;
import com.chilkatsoft.CkTask;

public class MyBaseProgress extends CkBaseProgress 
{	
  public boolean AbortCheck()
  {
    System.out.println("AbortCheck");
    // Return true to abort, false to allow the method to continue.
    return false;
  }
  	
  // pctDone is a value from 0 to 100
  // (it is actually value from 0 to the PercentDoneScale property setting)
  public boolean PercentDone(int pctDone)
  {
    System.out.println(pctDone);
    // Return true to abort, false to allow the method to continue.
    // Note: A PercentDone event is the equivalent of an AbortCheck.  
    // When PercentDone events are frequently firing, AbortCheck events are suppressed.
    // AbortCheck events will fire when the time between PercentDone events is longer 
    // than the HeartbeatMs property setting.
    return false;
  }
  
  public void ProgressInfo(String name, String value)
  {
    System.out.println(name + ": " + value);
  }
  
  public void TaskCompleted(CkTask task)
  {
     System.out.println("task completed!");
  }
  
}

AbortCheck

public boolean AbortCheck();

Provides the opportunity for a method call to be aborted. The AbortCheck event is fired periodically based on the value of the HeartbeatMs property. If HeartbeatMs is 0, then no AbortCheck events will fire. As an example, to fire 5 AbortCheck events per second, set the HeartbeatMs property equal to 200. Return true to abort; return false to continue (not abort)

PercentDone

public boolean PercentDone(int pctDone);

Provides the percentage completed for any method that involves network communications or time-consuming processing (assuming it is a method where a percentage completion can be measured). This event is only fired when it is possible to know a percentage completion, and when it makes sense to express the operation as a percentage completed. The pctDone argument will have a value from 1 to 100. For operations (Chilkat method calls) that complete very quickly, the number of PercentDone callbacks will vary, but the final callback should have a value of 100. For long running operations, no more than one callback per percentage point will occur (for example: 1, 2, 3, ... 98, 99, 100).

The PercentDone callback counts as an AbortCheck event. For method calls that complete quickly such that PercentDone events fire, it may be that AbortCheck events don't fire because the opportunity to abort is already provided in the PercentDone callback. For time consuming operations, where the amount of time between PercentDone callbacks are long, AbortCheck callbacks may be used to allow for the operation to be aborted in a more responsive manner.

Return true to abort; return false to continue (not abort)

ProgressInfo

public void ProgressInfo(String name, String value);

A general name/value event that provides information about what is happening during a method call. To find out what information is available, write code to handle this event and log the name/value pairs. Most are self-explanatory.

TaskCompleted

public void TaskCompleted(CkTask task);

Called in the background thread when an asynchronous task completes.

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