Compress/Uncompress String

[Levi]

Good day,

      I have a code as follows to compress I just copied it from the documentation:

private string CompressString(string str)
        {
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
            ZipCompression method = ZipCompression.Default;
            ZipOutputStream zipOutputStream = new ZipOutputStream(memoryStream, method);
            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(zipOutputStream);
            writer.Write(str);
            writer.Flush();
            return Convert.ToBase64String(memoryStream.ToArray());
        }


  What is missing is to decompress it, I tried the following code but it doesn't give me the correct output

private string UnCompressString(string str)
        {

            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(str));
            ZipInputStream input = new ZipInputStream(memoryStream);
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(input.BaseStream);
            string strData = reader.ReadToEnd();
            return strData;

        }

  When I tried to call the uncompressstring method, it does not give me the original text.

Thanks

[Tina Stancheva]

Hello Levi,

I attached a sample project to get you started on your task. It illustrates how to decompress the compressed stream. Please examine the solution and let me know if it works for you.

Greetings,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Levi]

Thank you for the solution.