Are C++ and Java GZip streams compatible? On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Kenton Varda <[email protected]> wrote:
> Compression is not a built-in feature of protocol buffers, but it is easy > and often useful to apply compression on top of the protobuf encoding. > > In Java, write your data to a GZIPOoutputStream, and then read from a > GZIPInputStream. These classes are part of the standard Java library, not > the protobuf library. > > In C++, use the GzipOutputStream and GzipInputStream classes that are > provided in the protobuf library (under google/protobuf/io). These simply > call zlib to apply compression on top of protocol buffers. > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:50 PM, nit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> HI All, >> Can anyone let me know whether the encoded file can be compressed >> while sending it and decompressed at the receiver's end? >> The problem is like i have a message structure which has many field >> and consumes more bytes. So can i compress and Decompress them? >> >> thanks, >> Nithin Shubhananda >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Protocol Buffers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<protobuf%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<protobuf%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
