java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.flush() Method Example

Description

The java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.flush() method flushes the compressed output stream. If syncFlush is true when this compressed output stream is constructed, this method first flushes the underlying compressor with the flush mode Deflater.SYNC_FLUSH to force all pending data to be flushed out to the output stream and then flushes the output stream. Otherwise this method only flushes the output stream without flushing the compressor.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.flush() method.

public void flush()
   throws IOException

Exceptions

• IOException − if an I/O error has occurred.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.flush() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.zip.Adler32;
import java.util.zip.CheckedInputStream;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;
import java.util.zip.Deflater;
import java.util.zip.DeflaterInputStream;
import java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.Inflater;
import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream;

public class DeflaterOutputStreamDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws DataFormatException, IOException {
      String message = "Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;"
         +"Welcome to TutorialsPoint.com;";
      String dictionary = "Welcome";
      System.out.println("Original Message length : " + message.length());
      byte[] input = message.getBytes("UTF-8");

      // Compress the bytes
      ByteArrayOutputStream arrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
      DeflaterOutputStream outputStream = new DeflaterOutputStream(arrayOutputStream);
      outputStream.write(input);
      outputStream.flush();
      outputStream.close();

      //Read and decompress the data
      byte[] readBuffer = new byte[5000];
      ByteArrayInputStream arrayInputStream = 
         new ByteArrayInputStream(arrayOutputStream.toByteArray());
      InflaterInputStream inputStream = new InflaterInputStream(arrayInputStream);
      int read = inputStream.read(readBuffer);

      //Should hold the original (reconstructed) data
      byte[] result = Arrays.copyOf(readBuffer, read);

      // Decode the bytes into a String
      message = new String(result, "UTF-8");
    
      System.out.println("UnCompressed Message length : " + message.length());
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

Original Message length : 300
UnCompressed Message length : 300