Fail to create a project. Error: end of central directory record signature not found

[Mattkitkat]

Hi, I tried following this guide:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-spring-boot

And believe to have installed all the prerequisites however am running into this issue below when trying to initialize a spring project:

I believe someone else has encountered this issue but has reported it in a different repository:
microsoft/vscode-java-pack#818

[TigerTurnedLion]

Same. looks like a problem with the downloaded zip package. The following message flashes before error: "Starting to unzip..."

Added this comment to both repos

[Eskibear]

We didn't release any new version recently. I guess something was wrong when it tried to unzip the package. The zip package is downloaded from "https://start.spring.io", which can be possibly changed and not coverred by extract-zip lib used by this extension.

I'll investigate it later.

[Charradii]

I'm facing the same problem, it used to work but today i was about to create a new project and the error appeared

[Eskibear]

I did a quick investigation. The root cause is wrong path of the downloading URL, leading to a broken zip package.
path should be /starter.zip instead of //starter.zip. Previously it was working well even with the double slashes. Maybe it's because of some recent updates in spring initializr service. I'll fix it ASAP.

# Downloading URL:
https://start.spring.io//starter.zip?type=maven-project&language=java&javaVersion=11&groupId=com.example&artifactId=demo&name=demo&packaging=jar&bootVersion=2.6.0&baseDir=demo&dependencies=

# Response:
{"timestamp":"2021-11-21T05:17:23.017+00:00","status":404,"error":"Not Found","message":"No message available","path":"https://starter.zip"}

[Eskibear]

fixed in v0.7.1