compression function

Compressed stream classes

CompressedInputStream and CompressedOutputStream

allow you to apply a compression Codec to an input or output stream. class

Factory

The CompressedInputStream$create() and CompressedOutputStream$create()

factory methods instantiate the object and take the following arguments:

• stream An InputStream or OutputStream , respectively
• codec A Codec, either a Codec instance or a string
• compression_level compression level for when the codec argument is given as a string

Methods

Methods are inherited from InputStream and OutputStream , respectively