Java: Gzip string to output string

Question

How do I take a string and use something like GZIPOutputStream to gzip the string and then output the zipped content as a string.

My intention is to transfer the zipped content as a post variable through HTTP.

jsight · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-20 18:29:00Z

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The steps are actually pretty simple:

Use the GZIPOutputStream to write it to a ByteArrayOutputStream... close the GZIPOutputStream
Call ByteArrayOutputStream.toBytes() to get the byte array
Use a Base64 encoder on the result

The server will perform essentially the reverse of these operations.

answered Jan 20, 2010 at 18:29

jsight

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