I am trying to use the following Java code to compress and uncompress a String. But the line that creates a new GZipInputStream object out of a new ByteArrayInputStream object throws a "java.util.zip.ZipException: Not in GZIP format" exception. Does anyone know how to solve this?
String orig = ".............";
// compress it
ByteArrayOutputStream baostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
OutputStream outStream = new GZIPOutputStream(baostream);
outStream.write(orig.getBytes());
outStream.close();
String compressedStr = baostream.toString();
// uncompress it
InputStream inStream = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(compressedStr.getBytes()));
ByteArrayOutputStream baoStream2 = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int len;
while((len = inStream.read(buffer))>0)
baoStream2.write(buffer, 0, len);
String uncompressedStr = baoStream2.toString();
Mixing String
and byte[]
; that does never fit. And only works on the the same OS with same encoding. Not every byte[]
can be converted to a String
, and the conversion back could give other bytes.
The compressedBytes
need not represent a String.
Explicitly set the encoding in getBytes
and new String
.
String orig = ".............";
// Compress it
ByteArrayOutputStream baostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
OutputStream outStream = new GZIPOutputStream(baostream);
outStream.write(orig.getBytes("UTF-8"));
outStream.close();
byte[] compressedBytes = baostream.toByteArray(); // toString not always possible
// Uncompress it
InputStream inStream = new GZIPInputStream(
new ByteArrayInputStream(compressedBytes));
ByteArrayOutputStream baoStream2 = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int len;
while ((len = inStream.read(buffer)) > 0) {
baoStream2.write(buffer, 0, len);
}
String uncompressedStr = baoStream2.toString("UTF-8");
System.out.println("orig: " + orig);
System.out.println("unc: " + uncompressedStr);