Adding Brotli as a compression option

[kyri-petrou]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Most browsers support brotli compression, which is a faster alternative to gzip. Netty already supports compressing payloads using brotli compression. It would be nice if zio-http exposed that as a compression option.

The main "issue" with adding this as an option is that this requires an additional dependency on brotli4j. While this could be added as an optional dependency (which is what Netty does), it might require adding some checks during the server initialization to ensure that the user has the dependency installed if they choose it

Describe the solution you'd like

Having Brotli as an additional CompressionType option

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🟢 @987Nabil		#2857

[Andrapyre]

@987Nabil , I haven't tried to run your PR locally, but it looks like you're trying to shade a native library. That will break the JNI binding and, AFAIK, the only way around that is to reimplement the JNI lib yourself. Why is the shading actually necessary here? This lib should probably be provided by the user anyway, since it's a native lib and needs to be built for the correct platform. In that case, you could probably get rid of the shading altogether, specify it as provided, and move on with your implementation.

Do you intend to finish this? If not, I'm happy to take it over.

[987Nabil]

@Andrapyre thanks for the input. I'll take care of it.

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