Creating BAR File Without Modeler

[gokceng1]

Hi,
I'm not using Eclipse Modeler. I need to create BAR files though. I've seen a post at this link:

http://forums.activiti.org/content/how-create-bar-file-programmatically-activiti-59

Here trademak says:

A BAR file is just a ZIP file containing the process definition file and optionally some other files.
So just create a ZIP file with these files and you're fine.

Best regards,

Does that mean creating a zip file using some arbitrary program gives the same result? I've created a zip file, changed extension from zip to bar. But It yields an error with a code like that:

ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(uploadReceiver.getBuffer().toByteArray());
ZipInputStream zipInputStream = new ZipInputStream(inputStream);
repositoryService.createDeployment().name(fileName).addZipInputStream(zipInputStream).deploy();
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Exception is:

Caused by: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: problem reading zip input stream
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.repository.DeploymentBuilderImpl.addZipInputStream(DeploymentBuilderImpl.java:102) ~[activiti-engine-5.14.jar:5.14]
   at ProcessUploadView.deployProcess(ProcessUploadView.java:190) ~[my.ui-1.1.0-20140102.160736-223.jar:na]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:510) ~[vaadin-6.8.7.jar:6.8.7]
   … 76 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null
   at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.getUTF8String(ZipInputStream.java:317) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.getFileName(ZipInputStream.java:436) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.readLOC(ZipInputStream.java:255) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.getNextEntry(ZipInputStream.java:82) ~[na:1.6.0_45]
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.repository.DeploymentBuilderImpl.addZipInputStream(DeploymentBuilderImpl.java:99) ~[activiti-engine-5.14.jar:5.14]
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Thanks.

[jbarrez]

It should … but is your file create with UTF8 encoding in mind? (see error)

[gokceng1]

I've thought it was about encoding of the file itself but it seems the problem is about name of the file. If the zip file contains a file with name that contains non-ascii characters in it, then the exception arises.
Thanks for the hint.

[jbarrez]

Ok, thanks for posting that back. Good information.