/// <summary>
/// Uncompress a DEFLATE'd byte array into a single string.
/// </summary>
///
/// <seealso cref="DeflateStream.CompressString(String)">DeflateStream.CompressString(String)</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="DeflateStream.UncompressBuffer(byte[])">DeflateStream.UncompressBuffer(byte[])</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.UncompressString(byte[])">GZipStream.UncompressString(byte[])</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="ZlibStream.UncompressString(byte[])">ZlibStream.UncompressString(byte[])</seealso>
///
/// <param name="compressed">
/// A buffer containing DEFLATE-compressed data.
/// </param>
///
/// <returns>The uncompressed string</returns>
public static String UncompressString(byte[] compressed)
{
using (var input = new System.IO.MemoryStream(compressed))
{
System.IO.Stream decompressor =
new DeflateStream(input, CompressionMode.Decompress);
return ZlibBaseStream.UncompressString(compressed, decompressor);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Compress a string into a byte array using DEFLATE (RFC 1951).
/// </summary>
///
/// <remarks>
/// Uncompress it with <see cref="DeflateStream.UncompressString(byte[])"/>.
/// </remarks>
///
/// <seealso cref="DeflateStream.UncompressString(byte[])">DeflateStream.UncompressString(byte[])</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="DeflateStream.CompressBuffer(byte[])">DeflateStream.CompressBuffer(byte[])</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="GZipStream.CompressString(string)">GZipStream.CompressString(string)</seealso>
/// <seealso cref="ZlibStream.CompressString(string)">ZlibStream.CompressString(string)</seealso>
///
/// <param name="s">
/// A string to compress. The string will first be encoded
/// using UTF8, then compressed.
/// </param>
///
/// <returns>The string in compressed form</returns>
public static byte[] CompressString(String s)
{
using (var ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
{
System.IO.Stream compressor =
new DeflateStream(ms, CompressionMode.Compress, CompressionLevel.BestCompression);
ZlibBaseStream.CompressString(s, compressor);
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
