| # flate2 |
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| A streaming compression/decompression library DEFLATE-based streams in Rust. |
| |
| This crate by default uses the `miniz_oxide` crate, a port of `miniz.c` to pure |
| Rust. This crate also supports other [backends](#backends), such as the widely |
| available zlib library or the high-performance zlib-ng library. |
| |
| Supported formats: |
| |
| * deflate |
| * zlib |
| * gzip |
| |
| ```toml |
| # Cargo.toml |
| [dependencies] |
| flate2 = "1.0" |
| ``` |
| |
| ## MSRV (Minimum Supported Rust Version) Policy |
| |
| This crate supports the current and previous stable versions of the Rust compiler. |
| For example, if the current stable is 1.80, this crate supports 1.80 and 1.79. |
| |
| Other compiler versions may work, but failures may not be treated as a `flate2` bug. |
| |
| The `Cargo.toml` file specifies a `rust-version` for which builds of the current version |
| passed at some point. This value is indicative only, and may change at any time. |
| |
| The `rust-version` is a best-effort measured value and is different to the MSRV. The |
| `rust-version` can be incremented by a PR in order to pass tests, as long as the MSRV |
| continues to hold. When the `rust-version` increases, the next release should be a minor |
| version, to allow any affected users to pin to a previous minor version. |
| |
| ## Compression |
| |
| ```rust |
| use std::io::prelude::*; |
| use flate2::Compression; |
| use flate2::write::ZlibEncoder; |
| |
| fn main() { |
| let mut e = ZlibEncoder::new(Vec::new(), Compression::default()); |
| e.write_all(b"foo"); |
| e.write_all(b"bar"); |
| let compressed_bytes = e.finish(); |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| ## Decompression |
| |
| ```rust,no_run |
| use std::io::prelude::*; |
| use flate2::read::GzDecoder; |
| |
| fn main() { |
| let mut d = GzDecoder::new("...".as_bytes()); |
| let mut s = String::new(); |
| d.read_to_string(&mut s).unwrap(); |
| println!("{}", s); |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| ## Backends |
| |
| The default `miniz_oxide` backend has the advantage of being pure Rust. If you |
| want maximum performance, you can use the zlib-ng C library: |
| |
| ```toml |
| [dependencies] |
| flate2 = { version = "1.0.17", features = ["zlib-ng"], default-features = false } |
| ``` |
| |
| Note that the `"zlib-ng"` feature works even if some other part of your crate |
| graph depends on zlib. |
| |
| However, if you're already using another C or Rust library that depends on |
| zlib, and you want to avoid including both zlib and zlib-ng, you can use that |
| for Rust code as well: |
| |
| ```toml |
| [dependencies] |
| flate2 = { version = "1.0.17", features = ["zlib"], default-features = false } |
| ``` |
| |
| Or, if you have C or Rust code that depends on zlib and you want to use zlib-ng |
| via libz-sys in zlib-compat mode, use: |
| |
| ```toml |
| [dependencies] |
| flate2 = { version = "1.0.17", features = ["zlib-ng-compat"], default-features = false } |
| ``` |
| |
| Note that when using the `"zlib-ng-compat"` feature, if any crate in your |
| dependency graph explicitly requests stock zlib, or uses libz-sys directly |
| without `default-features = false`, you'll get stock zlib rather than zlib-ng. |
| See [the libz-sys |
| README](https://github.com/rust-lang/libz-sys/blob/main/README.md) for details. |
| To avoid that, use the `"zlib-ng"` feature instead. |
| |
| For compatibility with previous versions of `flate2`, the Cloudflare optimized |
| version of zlib is available, via the `cloudflare_zlib` feature. It's not as |
| fast as zlib-ng, but it's faster than stock zlib. It requires an x86-64 CPU with |
| SSE 4.2 or ARM64 with NEON & CRC. It does not support 32-bit CPUs at all and is |
| incompatible with mingw. For more information check the [crate |
| documentation](https://crates.io/crates/cloudflare-zlib-sys). Note that |
| `cloudflare_zlib` will cause breakage if any other crate in your crate graph |
| uses another version of zlib/libz. |
| |
| # License |
| |
| This project is licensed under either of |
| |
| * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or |
| https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) |
| * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or |
| https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) |
| |
| at your option. |
| |
| ### Contribution |
| |
| Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted |
| for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, |
| shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions. |