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

Description

The java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(byte[] buf, int off, int len) method writes array of bytes to the compressed output stream. This method will block until all the bytes are written.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(byte[] buf, int off, int len) method.

public int write(byte[] buf, int off, int len)
   throws IOException

Parameters

• buf − the data to be written.

• off − the start offset of the data.

• len − the length of the data.

Exceptions

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

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(byte[] buf, int off, int len) 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,0, input.length);
      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