package compression import ( "bytes" "compress/zlib" "io" ) //Gzip is a decompressor for gzip type compression. Uses zlib for compression and decompression type Gzip struct{} //Decompress reads the entirety of the given reader and returns it uncompressed as a byte slice. func (g *Gzip) Decompress(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) { rdr, err := zlib.NewReader(r) if err != nil { return nil, err } var data bytes.Buffer _, err = io.Copy(&data, rdr) if err != nil { return nil, err } return data.Bytes(), nil } //Compress compresses the given data (as a byte array) and returns the compressed data. func (g *Gzip) Compress(data []byte) ([]byte, error) { var buf bytes.Buffer wrt := zlib.NewWriter(&buf) defer wrt.Close() _, err := wrt.Write(data) if err != nil { return nil, err } err = wrt.Flush() if err != nil { return nil, err } return buf.Bytes(), nil }