This library simplifies the usage of standard compression algorithms, as the standard compression API from .NET is a bit tricky to get right. There two interfaces are , ICompressor and IDecompressor, two implementations of each interface (GZip and Deflate), along with extension methods for the interface.
The ICompressor interface itself has a Compress method that takes a Stream parameter containing data and returns a byte[] containing the compressed stream.
The first ICompressor.Compress extension method takes a byte[] and returns a byte[] containing the compressed input array.
The second ICompressor.Compress extension method takes a string parameter and an optional Encoding parameter. It encodes the string into a byte[] and returns that array, compressed.
The IDecompressor interface has a Decompress method that takes a Stream parameter containing compressed data and returns a byte[] with the decompressed stream.
The IDecompressor.Decompress extension method takes a byte[] containing compressed data and returns a byte[] with the decompressed input array.
This library supports the following targets:
- .NET 6
- .NET Core 3.1
- .NET Framework 4.8
ICompressor compressor = new GZipCompressor();
IDecompressor decompressor = new GZipDecompressor();
byte[] compressed = compressor.Compress("Hello, world!");
byte[] decompressed = decompressor.Decompress(compressed);
string originalString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decompressed);