In terms of output? GZIP / DEFLATE / etc implementations should be interoperable between platforms, yes. However IIRC the compressed stream is not guaranteed to be byte-identical between specific implementations (but the *decompressed* stream should be byte-identical)
Marc On 19 October 2010 20:24, Igor Gatis <igorga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are C++ and Java GZip streams compatible? > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> 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 <nithin.shubhan...@gmail.com> 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 proto...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> 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 proto...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> 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 proto...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > -- Regards, Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
