java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.finish() Method Example

Description

The java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.finish() method finishes writing compressed data to the output stream without closing the underlying stream. Use this method when applying multiple filters in succession to the same output stream.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.finish() method.

public void finish()
   throws IOException

Exceptions

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

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.finish() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

public class GZIPOutputStreamDemo {

   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;";
    
      System.out.println("Original Message length : " + message.length());
      byte[] input = message.getBytes("UTF-8");

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

      //Read and decompress the data
      byte[] readBuffer = new byte[5000];
      ByteArrayInputStream arrayInputStream = 
         new ByteArrayInputStream(arrayOutputStream.toByteArray());
      GZIPInputStream inputStream = new GZIPInputStream(arrayInputStream);
      int read = inputStream.read(readBuffer,0,readBuffer.length);
      inputStream.close();
      //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