/// <summary>
/// Compress a byte array into a new byte array using GZip.
/// </summary>
///
/// <remarks>
/// Uncompress it with <see cref="GZipStream.UncompressBuffer(byte[])"/>.
/// </remarks>
///
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.CompressString(string)"/>
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.UncompressBuffer(byte[])"/>
///
/// <param name="b">
/// A buffer to compress.
/// </param>
///
/// <returns>The data in compressed form</returns>
public static byte[] CompressBuffer(byte[] b)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
System.IO.Stream compressor =
new GZipStream( ms, CompressionMode.Compress, CompressionLevel.BestCompression );
ZlibBaseStream.CompressBuffer(b, compressor);
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Uncompress a GZip'ed byte array into a single string.
/// </summary>
///
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.CompressString(String)"/>
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.UncompressBuffer(byte[])"/>
///
/// <param name="compressed">
/// A buffer containing GZIP-compressed data.
/// </param>
///
/// <returns>The uncompressed string</returns>
public static String UncompressString(byte[] compressed)
{
using (var input = new MemoryStream(compressed))
{
Stream decompressor = new GZipStream(input, CompressionMode.Decompress);
return ZlibBaseStream.UncompressString(compressed, decompressor);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Uncompress a GZip'ed byte array into a byte array.
/// </summary>
///
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.CompressBuffer(byte[])"/>
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.UncompressString(byte[])"/>
///
/// <param name="compressed">
/// A buffer containing data that has been compressed with GZip.
/// </param>
///
/// <returns>The data in uncompressed form</returns>
public static byte[] UncompressBuffer(byte[] compressed)
{
using (var input = new System.IO.MemoryStream(compressed))
{
System.IO.Stream decompressor =
new GZipStream( input, CompressionMode.Decompress );
return ZlibBaseStream.UncompressBuffer(compressed, decompressor);
}
}