Decompress GZip string in Java

Question

I can find plenty of functions that let you decompress a GZip file, but how do I decompress a GZip string?

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Answer 1

There's no such thing as a GZip string. GZip is binary, strings are text.

If you want to compress a string, you need to convert it into binary first - e.g. with OutputStreamWriter chained to a compressing OutputStream (e.g. a GZIPOutputStream)

Likewise to read the data, you can use an InputStreamReader chained to a decompressing InputStream (e.g. a GZIPInputStream).

One way of easily reading from a Reader is to use CharStreams.toString(Readable) from Guava, or a similar library.