Golang : zlib compress file example
This tutorial will show you how to read an uncompress file content into a buffer, use zlib on the buffer and write out the buffer content into a new file.
Here we go :
package main
import (
"bufio"
"bytes"
"compress/zlib"
"flag"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
)
func main() {
flag.Parse() // get the arguments from command line
filename := flag.Arg(0)
if filename == "" {
fmt.Println("Usage : go-zlib sourcefile")
os.Exit(1)
}
rawfile, err := os.Open(filename)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer rawfile.Close()
// calculate the buffer size for rawfile
info, _ := rawfile.Stat()
var size int64 = info.Size()
rawbytes := make([]byte, size)
// read rawfile content into buffer
buffer := bufio.NewReader(rawfile)
_, err = buffer.Read(rawbytes)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
var buf bytes.Buffer
writer := zlib.NewWriter(&buf)
writer.Write(rawbytes)
writer.Close()
err = ioutil.WriteFile(filename+".zlib", buf.Bytes(), info.Mode())
// use 0666 to replace info.Mode() if you prefer
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
fmt.Printf("%s compressed to %s\n", filename, filename+".zlib")
}
References :
http://golang.org/pkg/compress/zlib/
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-read-binary-file-into-memory
By Adam Ng
IF you gain some knowledge or the information here solved your programming problem. Please consider donating to the less fortunate or some charities that you like. Apart from donation, planting trees, volunteering or reducing your carbon footprint will be great too.
Advertisement
Tutorials
+20k Golang : GORM create record or insert new record into database example
+34.2k Golang : Validate IP address
+6.8k Golang : Reverse a string with unicode
+10.4k Golang : Concurrency and goroutine example
+12.1k Golang : Image to ASCII art example
+6.3k Golang : Calculate how many weeks left to go in a given year
+7.2k Golang : How To Use Panic and Recover
+5.2k Golang : Join lines with certain suffix symbol example
+5k Golang : How to write backslash in string?
+6.8k Swift : Convert (cast) String to Double
+9.2k Android Studio : Checkbox for user to select options example
+8.4k Facebook : Getting the friends list with PHP return JSON format