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Java gzip compress/decompress string
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
public class Gzip {
public static byte[] compress(String data) throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(data.length());
GZIPOutputStream gzip = new GZIPOutputStream(bos);
gzip.write(data.getBytes());
gzip.close();
byte[] compressed = bos.toByteArray();
bos.close();
return compressed;
}
public static String decompress(byte[] compressed) throws IOException {
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(compressed);
GZIPInputStream gis = new GZIPInputStream(bis);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(gis, "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
br.close();
gis.close();
bis.close();
return sb.toString();
}
}
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