Compression utility for compressing strings with ToCompressed and ToDecompressed extensions.

CompressUtil.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Text;

public static class CompressUtil {

    public static string ToCompressed(this string val) {
        if (!IsStringCompressed(val)) {
            return CompressString(val);
        }
        return val;
    }

    public static string ToDecompressed(this string val) {
        if (IsStringCompressed(val)) {
            return DecompressString(val);
        }
        return val;
    }

    public static string CompressString(string text) {
        byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
        var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
        using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Compress, true)) {
            gZipStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        }

        memoryStream.Position = 0;

        var compressedData = new byte[memoryStream.Length];
        memoryStream.Read(compressedData, 0, compressedData.Length);

        var gZipBuffer = new byte[compressedData.Length + 4];
        Buffer.BlockCopy(compressedData, 0, gZipBuffer, 4, compressedData.Length);
        Buffer.BlockCopy(BitConverter.GetBytes(buffer.Length), 0, gZipBuffer, 0, 4);
        return Convert.ToBase64String(gZipBuffer);
    }

    public static string DecompressString(string compressedText) {
        byte[] gZipBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(compressedText);
        using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) {
            int dataLength = BitConverter.ToInt32(gZipBuffer, 0);
            memoryStream.Write(gZipBuffer, 4, gZipBuffer.Length - 4);

            var buffer = new byte[dataLength];

            memoryStream.Position = 0;
            using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Decompress)) {
                gZipStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
            }

            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
        }
    }

    public static bool IsStringCompressed(string data) {
        if (IsStringCompressedGZip(data) || IsStringCompressedPKZip(data)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public static bool IsStringCompressedGZip(string data) {
        return CheckSignatureString(data, 3, "1F-8B-08");
    }

    public static bool IsStringCompressedPKZip(string data) {
        return CheckSignatureString(data, 4, "50-4B-03-04");
    }

    public static bool CheckSignatureFile(string filepath, int signatureSize, string expectedSignature) {
        if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(filepath))
            throw new ArgumentException("Must specify a filepath");
        if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(expectedSignature))
            throw new ArgumentException("Must specify a value for the expected file signature");
        using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)) {
            if (fs.Length < signatureSize)
                return false;
            byte[] signature = new byte[signatureSize];
            int bytesRequired = signatureSize;
            int index = 0;
            while (bytesRequired > 0) {
                int bytesRead = fs.Read(signature, index, bytesRequired);
                bytesRequired -= bytesRead;
                index += bytesRead;
            }
            string actualSignature = BitConverter.ToString(signature);
            if (actualSignature == expectedSignature)
                return true;
            else
                return false;
        }
    }

    public static bool CheckSignatureString(string data, int signatureSize, string expectedSignature) {

        byte[] datas = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(datas)) {
            if (ms.Length < signatureSize)
                return false;
            byte[] signature = new byte[signatureSize];
            int bytesRequired = signatureSize;
            int index = 0;
            while (bytesRequired > 0) {
                int bytesRead = ms.Read(signature, index, bytesRequired);
                bytesRequired -= bytesRead;
                index += bytesRead;
            }
            string actualSignature = BitConverter.ToString(signature);
            if (actualSignature == expectedSignature)
                return true;
            else
                return false;
        }
    }
}