Creating an in memory zip file

Hi,

You can use EEx.eval_string/3 or EEx.eval_file/3. See EEx — EEx v1.20.2

Sorry, I should have specified that I also want to dynamically create this file as depending on what element I am exporting will adjust the generated HTML file that composes the SCORM package.

So far I have pursued the avenue of creating a new view called ScormView and create associated templates in the appropriate templates folder /templates/scorm. For example, the SCORM manifest file is located at:

/project_root/lib/mannequin_web/templates/scorm/imsmanifest.xml.eex

I then render it to a string like this:

Phoenix.View.render_to_string(MannequinWeb.ScormView, "imsmanifest.xml", %{schema: "my_schema_name"})

And then use the string as part of the data sent to the zip command. I haven’t executed the :zip.create call yet using this string data, but based on my understanding of elixir, I should be able to use the generated template string as binary data… I’ll try that tommorow.

Do you see any particular issues using the above approach?

Cheers..

I’ve had a similar problem to solve. Create a zip file in memory from bunch of files that I had content in strings. And then base64 it. The safest way is to use zip module from erlang. Theres a create method that takes filename, list of files and options where you can pass that you wanna work in memory. This is what I came up with.

{:ok, {_filename, data}} = :zip.create("extension.zip", [{'file1.txt', "content of file 1"}, {'file2.txt',"content of file 2"}], [:memory])
data |> Base.encode64

Sweet - thanks!