Java tutorial
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Project ProjectForge Community Edition // www.projectforge.org // // Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Kai Reinhard (k.reinhard@micromata.de) // // ProjectForge is dual-licensed. // // This community edition is free software; you can redistribute it and/or // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published // by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License. // // This community edition is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General // Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along // with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// package org.projectforge.common; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream; import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; public class GZIPHelper { private static final org.apache.log4j.Logger log = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(GZIPHelper.class); /** * @param str * @return Base64 encoded byte array. */ public static String compress(final String str) { if (str == null || str.length() == 0) { return str; } final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); try { final GZIPOutputStream gzip = new GZIPOutputStream(out); gzip.write(str.getBytes()); gzip.close(); return Base64Helper.encodeObject(out.toByteArray()); } catch (final IOException ex) { log.error("Error while compressing string: " + ex.getMessage(), ex); return null; } } /** * @param base64ByteArray * @return */ public static String uncompress(final String base64ByteArray) { if (base64ByteArray == null || base64ByteArray.length() == 0) { return base64ByteArray; } try { final byte[] byteArray = (byte[]) Base64Helper.decodeObject(base64ByteArray); final ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray); final GZIPInputStream gzip = new GZIPInputStream(in); final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); IOUtils.copy(gzip, out); gzip.close(); return out.toString(); } catch (final IOException ex) { log.error("Error while uncompressing string: " + ex.getMessage(), ex); return null; } catch (final ClassNotFoundException ex) { log.error("Error while uncompressing string: " + ex.getMessage(), ex); return null; } } }