How do I compress a file in Gzip format?

In this code example we will learn how to compress a file using the gzip compression. By its nature, gzip can only compress a single file, you can not use it for compressing a directory and all the files in that directory.

Classes that you will be using to compress a file in gzip format includes the GZipOutputStream, FileInputStream and FileOutputStream classes. The steps for compressing a file described in the comments of the code snippet below.

package org.kodejava.util.zip;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

public class GZipCompressExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // GZip input and output file.
        String sourceFile = "data.txt";
        String targetFile = "output.gz";

        try (
                // Create a file input stream of the file that is going to be
                // compressed.
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(sourceFile);

                // Create a file output stream then write the gzip result into
                // a specified file name.
                FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);

                // Create a gzip output stream object with file output stream
                // as the argument.
                GZIPOutputStream gzos = new GZIPOutputStream(fos)) {

            // Define buffer and temporary variable for iterating the file
            // input stream.
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int length;

            // Read all the content of the file input stream and write it
            // to the gzip output stream object.
            while ((length = fis.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                gzos.write(buffer, 0, length);
            }

            // Finish file compressing and close all streams.
            gzos.finish();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
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