GZIPInputStream to String

Question

I am attempting to convert the gzipped body of a HTTP response to plaintext. I\'ve taken the byte array of this response and converted it to a ByteArrayInputStream. I\'ve th

Answer 1

Use Apache Commons to convert GzipInputStream to byteArray.

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public static byte[] decompressContent(byte[] pByteArray) throws IOException {
        GZIPInputStream gzipIn = null;
        try {
            gzipIn = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(pByteArray));
            return IOUtils.toByteArray(gzipIn);
        } finally {
            if (gzipIn != null) {
                gzipIn.close();
            }
        }

To convert byte array uncompressed content to String, do something like this :

String uncompressedContent = new String(decompressContent(inputStream));