PHP's gzuncompress function in Java?

Question

I'm compressing a string using PHP's gzcompress() function:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.gzcompress.php

I'd like to take the output from the PHP compression function and decompress the string in Java. Can anyone send me down the right path?

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

This is very old, but it might just contain the right info to get you started: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/compression/

Answer 2

Put the data into a ByteArrayInputStream, then you should be able to decode it with GZipInputStream.

To get the bytes out of the String, try getBytes("ISO-8859-1"). This encoding won't change the incoming bytes.

Answer 3

have a look to GZIPInputStream:

GZIPInputStream gzipInputStream = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(inFilename));
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = gzipInputStream.read(buf)) > 0) {
    // buf contains uncompressed data      
}