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Matthias Stevens commented on COMPRESS-263:
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Added patch which implements this feature. Please consider including this in
the next official release.
Thanks!
> Add DEFLATE support
> -------------------
>
> Key: COMPRESS-263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-263
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Compressors
> Reporter: Matthias Stevens
> Labels: features
> Attachments: COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport.patch
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> GZIP is not a compression algorithm "as such". It in fact uses the DEFLATE
> algorithm but adds a header of minimum 10 bytes and a footer of 8 bytes.
> Find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip#File_format
> I have no problem with the current GZIP support, but it would be nice if
> CommonsCompress would also have compression and decompression support for
> "raw" DEFLATE streams.
> Like GZIP itself this can be implemented very easily using the standard
> java.util.zip package.
> Have a look at java.util.zip.Deflater and java.util.zip.Inflater.
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