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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-263:
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I've committed your patch unchanged as svn revision 1602546

Apart from the isZlibHeaderPresent name already mentioned there are three 
things I will change but you may want to discuss or provide a patch for:

* we need docs :-)
* the count-invocations in input stream are counting uncompressed bytes where 
they should be counting the compressed amount.  I think wrapping the original 
stream in a CountingInputStream is the way I'd go.
* add counting to the output stream


> 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
>             Fix For: 1.9
>
>         Attachments: COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport.patch, 
> COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport_v1.1.patch, bla.tar.deflate, bla.tar.deflatez
>
>
> GZIP is not a compression algorithm "as such". The de facto (and currently 
> the only supported) compression algorithm it uses is DEFLATE.
> GZIP adds a header of minimum 10 bytes and a footer of 8 bytes to a 
> "deflated" data stream. 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 and DEFLATE streams with the zlib header.
> Similarly to the GZIP support in CommonsCompress these functionality can be 
> implemented very easily using the standard java.util.zip package, as done in 
> the provided patch.



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