How to unzip

[burnt osprey]

I was wondering how I could unzip things, do I have to use rust or is there another way? because I am very bad at rust

[shell ridge]

You can use a library like https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/zip.js

Read the file using readBinaryFile

Though for best performance you'll prob want to go with Rust

Especially if the zip file isn't tiny

Since the readBinaryFile API does force you to read the whole file into memory

[unkempt monolith]

use the zip_extract rust crate

i used that for my app.

#[tauri::command]
pub async fn unzip_archive(archive_path: String, target_dir: String) -> Result<String, String> {
  // The third parameter allows you to strip away toplevel directories.
  // If `archive` contained a single directory, its contents would be extracted instead.
  let _target_dir = std::path::PathBuf::from(target_dir); // Doesn't need to exist

  let archive = std::fs::read(&archive_path).expect("Failed to read archive");
  zip_extract::extract(std::io::Cursor::new(archive), &_target_dir, true)
    .expect("Failed to extract archive");

// erase the archive
// ! Using std:: is BAD practice, but it is the only way to get this to work for now
  std::fs::remove_file(archive_path).expect("Failed to remove archive");
  Ok(archive_path)
}

this is a basic implementation

then you can call it from JS using tauri's invoke api.

using tauri's fs api for reading the archive and using tauris path api for setting the target directory are much better options and i highly recommend that you do that instead. The above is just a working example i gave to get you up and running,