Unable to parse shapefile zip

Question

I have following code:

String shapeFileZipPath = "path/to/shapefile-test.zip";
File file = new File(shapeFileZipPath);
Map<String, Serializable> map = new HashMap();
map.put("url", file.toURI().toURL());

ShapefileDataStoreFactory dataStoreFactory = new ShapefileDataStoreFactory();
ShapefileDataStore dataStore = (ShapefileDataStore) dataStoreFactory.createDataStore(map);
System.out.println(dataStore);

Whne I run this program, I get:

shapefile-test.zip is not one of the files types that is known to be associated with a shapefile

When I unizip the file using mac's zip archive utility,it unzips to a folder containing six files(.prj, .shp,.shx,.dbf,.qmd,.cpg).

So it this error due ot the fact that there is a folder at root level of zip, while ShapefileDataStoreFactory needs those six files at root level.

Note: I create zip using 'zip -j...' command.

Answer 1

GeoTools doesn't handle zipped shapefiles, point the datastore at the .shp file or a shp.gz and it should be fine.

Note you should probably use theUrls.toUrl method to make the URL