File compression before upload on the client-side

Question

Basically I\'ll be working with large XML files (approx. 20 - 50 MB). These files needs to be uploaded on a server.

I know it isn\'t possible to touch the files with

Answer 1

Flash's inbuilt implementation of ByteArray has a method (ByteArray::deflate to deflate the contents (of the bytearray) The deflate algorithm is the DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3.

There;s also a ByteArray::compress method which compresses using the zlib algorithm

Hold on a bit, I'll write you some sample code to use this class and expose it to JavaScript.

EDIT

I've uploaded the file at http://www.filefactory.com/file/cf8a39c/n/demo5.zip

EDIT 2 For those who couldn't download the files:

My ActionScript code in demo5.fla (compiled to demo5.swf)

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import flash.net.FileReference;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.utils.ByteArray;

if(ExternalInterface.available) {
    //flash.system.Security.allowDomain("localhost");
    ExternalInterface.addCallback("deflate", doDeflate);
    ExternalInterface.addCallback("compress", doCompress);
}

var method:String="deflate";
var b:ByteArray;
function doCompress(_data:String):void {
    method="compress";
    exec(_data);
}

function doDeflate(_data:String):void {
    method="deflate";
    exec(_data);
}

function exec(_data:String):void {
    b=new ByteArray();
    b.writeUTFBytes(_data);
    b.position=0;
    if(method=="compress") {
        b.compress();
    } else if(method=="deflate") {
        b.deflate();
    }
    executed();
}

function executed():void {
    if(ExternalInterface.available) {
        b.position=0;
        var str:String=b.readUTFBytes(b.bytesAvailable);
        ExternalInterface.call("onExec", str);
    }
}

My HTML code to embed the swf:

Deflate
Compress

    

and finally the javascript code:

function doDeflate() {
    var data="fdg fhnkl,hgltrebdkjlgyu ia43uwriu67ri8m nirugklhvjsd fgvu";
    //DATA CONTAINS DATA TO BE DEFLATED
    thisMovie("demo5").deflate(data);
}

function doCompress() {
    var data="fdg fhnkl,hgltrebdkjlgyu ia43uwriu67ri8m nirugklhvjsd fgvu";
    //DATA CONTAINS DATA TO BE DEFLATED
    thisMovie("demo5").compress(data);
}

function onExec(data) {
    //DATA CONTAINS THE DEFLATED DATA
    alert(data);
}

function thisMovie(movieName) {
    if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
        return window[movieName];
    } else {
        return document[movieName];
    }
}