How do I decompress a GZip file in Java?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Zip and GZIP 0 Comment

In the previous example we have learn how to compress a file in GZIP format. To get the file back to its original version we will now learn how to decompress the gzip file. Just like the previous example, we are also going to use the FileInputStream and FileOutputStream class to read the compressed source file and to write out the decompressed file. While GZipOutputStream was used to to create the gzip file, the GZipInputStream is the class that handles the decompression.

Here is your code snippet:

package org.kodejava.example.zip;

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

public class GZipDecompressExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //
        // GZip input and output file.
        //
        String sourceFile = "core-sample/target/classes/output.gz";
        String targetFile = "core-sample/target/classes/input-1.txt";

        try {
            //
            // Create a file input stream to read the source file.
            //
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(sourceFile);

            //
            // Create a gzip input stream to decompress the source
            // file defined by the file input stream.
            //
            GZIPInputStream gzis = new GZIPInputStream(fis);

            //
            // Create a buffer and temporary variable used during the
            // file decompress process.
            //
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int length;

            //
            // Create file output stream where the decompress result
            // will be stored.
            //
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);

            //
            // Read from the compressed source file and write the
            // decompress file.
            //
            while ((length = gzis.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                fos.write(buffer, 0, length);
            }

            //
            // Close the resources.
            //
            fos.close();
            gzis.close();
            fis.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How do I compress a file in GZip format?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Zip and GZIP 0 Comment

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.example.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 = "core-sample/target/classes/input.txt";
        String targetFile = "core-sample/target/classes/output.gz";

        try {
            //
            // Create a file output stream the 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;

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

            //
            // 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.
            //
            fis.close();
            gzos.finish();
            gzos.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}