Simple compression with GZIP
The GZIP interface is simple and thus is probably more appropriate when you have a single stream of data that you want to compress (rather than a container of dissimilar pieces of data). Here’s an example that compresses a single file:
//: c12:GZIPcompress.java
// {Args: GZIPcompress.java}
// {Clean: test.gz}
import com.bruceeckel.simpletest.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.*;
public class GZIPcompress {
private static Test monitor = new Test();
// Throw exceptions to console:
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException {
if(args.length == 0) {
System.out.println(
"Usage: \nGZIPcompress file\n" +
"\tUses GZIP compression to compress " +
"the file to test.gz");
System.exit(1);
}
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new FileReader(args[0]));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(
new GZIPOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream("test.gz")));
System.out.println("Writing file");
int c;
while((c = in.read()) != -1)
out.write(c);
in.close();
out.close();
System.out.println("Reading file");
BufferedReader in2 = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(new GZIPInputStream(
new FileInputStream("test.gz"))));
String s;
while((s = in2.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(s);
monitor.expect(new String[] {
"Writing file",
"Reading file"
}, args[0]);
}
} ///:~
The use of the compression classes is straightforward; you simply wrap your output stream in a GZIPOutputStream or ZipOutputStream, and your input stream in a GZIPInputStream or ZipInputStream. All else is ordinary I/O reading and writing. This is an example of mixing the char-oriented streams with the byte-oriented streams; in uses the Reader classes, whereas GZIPOutputStream’s constructor can accept only an OutputStream object, not a Writer object. When the file is opened, the GZIPInputStream is converted to a Reader.
