Java - Compressing Byte Arrays

Introduction

You can use the Deflater and Inflater classes in the java.util.zip package to compress and decompress data in a byte array, respectively.

The following code illustrates how to use the Deflater and Inflater classes.

The compress() and decompress() methods accept the inputs and return the compressed and decompressed data, respectively.

Demo

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;
import java.util.zip.Deflater;
import java.util.zip.Inflater;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String input = "Hello world! this is a test from book2s.com";
    byte[] uncompressedData = input.getBytes("UTF-8");

    // Compress the data
    byte[] compressedData = compress(uncompressedData,
        Deflater.BEST_COMPRESSION, false);

    // Decompress the data
    byte[] decompressedData = decompress(compressedData, false);

    String output = new String(decompressedData, "UTF-8");

    // Display the statistics
    System.out.println("Input String: " + input);
    System.out.println("Uncompressed data length: " + uncompressedData.length);
    System.out.println("Compressed data length: " + compressedData.length);
    System.out.println("Decompressed data length: " + decompressedData.length);
    System.out.println("Output String: " + output);
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  public static byte[] compress(byte[] input, int compressionLevel,
      boolean GZIPFormat) throws IOException {

    // Create a Deflater object to compress data
    Deflater compressor = new Deflater(compressionLevel, GZIPFormat);

    // Set the input for the compressor
    compressor.setInput(input);

    // Call the finish() method to indicate that we have
    // no more input for the compressor object
    compressor.finish();

    // Compress the data
    ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1024];
    int readCount = 0;

    while (!compressor.finished()) {
      readCount = compressor.deflate(readBuffer);
      if (readCount > 0) {
        // Write compressed data to the output stream
        bao.write(readBuffer, 0, readCount);
      }
    }

    // End the compressor
    compressor.end();

    // Return the written bytes from output stream
    return bao.toByteArray();
  }

  public static byte[] decompress(byte[] input, boolean GZIPFormat)
      throws IOException, DataFormatException {
    // Create an Inflater object to compress the data
    Inflater decompressor = new Inflater(GZIPFormat);

    // Set the input for the decompressor
    decompressor.setInput(input);

    // Decompress data
    ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1024];
    int readCount = 0;

    while (!decompressor.finished()) {
      readCount = decompressor.inflate(readBuffer);
      if (readCount > 0) {
        // Write the data to the output stream
        bao.write(readBuffer, 0, readCount);
      }
    }

    // End the decompressor
    decompressor.end();

    // Return the written bytes from the output stream
    return bao.toByteArray();
  }
}

Java - Compressing Byte Arrays

Introduction

Demo

Result