class Gzip::Reader

Overview

A read-only IO object to decompress data in the gzip format.

Instances of this class wrap another IO object. When you read from this instance instance, it reads data from the underlying IO, decompresses it, and returns it to the caller.

NOTE A gzip stream can contain zero or more members. If it contains no members, #header will be nil. If it contains one or more members, only the first header will be recorded here. This is because gzipping multiple members is not common as one usually combines gzip with tar. If, however, multiple members are present then reading from this reader will return the concatenation of all the members.

Example: decompress a gzip file

require "gzip"

File.write("file.gzip", Bytes[31, 139, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 75, 76, 74, 6, 0, 194, 65, 36, 53, 3, 0, 0, 0])

string = File.open("file.gzip") do |file|
  Gzip::Reader.open(file) do |gzip|
    gzip.gets_to_end
  end
end
string # => "abc"

Included Modules

Defined in:

gzip/reader.cr

Constructors

Class Method Summary

Instance Method Summary

Instance methods inherited from module IO

<<(obj) : self <<, close close, closed? closed?, each_byte
each_byte(&block) : Nil each_byte, each_char(&block) : Nil
each_char each_char, each_line(*args, **options, &block) : Nil
each_line(*args, **options) each_line, encoding : String encoding, flush flush, gets(limit : Int, chomp = false) : String?
gets(delimiter : Char, chomp = false) : String?
gets(delimiter : String, chomp = false) : String?
gets(chomp = true) : String?
gets(delimiter : Char, limit : Int, chomp = false) : String? gets, gets_to_end : String gets_to_end, peek : Bytes? peek, print(*objects : _) : Nil
print(obj) : Nil print, printf(format_string, args : Array | Tuple) : Nil
printf(format_string, *args) : Nil printf, puts(*objects : _) : Nil
puts : Nil
puts(obj) : Nil
puts(string : String) : Nil puts, read(slice : Bytes) read, read_byte : UInt8? read_byte, read_bytes(type, format : IO::ByteFormat = IO::ByteFormat::SystemEndian) read_bytes, read_char : Char? read_char, read_fully(slice : Bytes) read_fully, read_fully?(slice : Bytes) read_fully?, read_line(*args, **options) : String? read_line, read_string(bytesize : Int) : String read_string, read_utf8(slice : Bytes) read_utf8, read_utf8_byte read_utf8_byte, rewind rewind, set_encoding(encoding : String, invalid : Symbol? = nil) set_encoding, skip(bytes_count : Int) : Nil skip, skip_to_end : Nil skip_to_end, tty? : Bool tty?, write(slice : Bytes) : Nil write, write_byte(byte : UInt8) write_byte, write_bytes(object, format : IO::ByteFormat = IO::ByteFormat::SystemEndian) write_bytes, write_utf8(slice : Bytes) write_utf8

Class methods inherited from module IO

copy(src, dst, limit : Int)
copy(src, dst) copy, pipe(read_blocking = false, write_blocking = false)
pipe(read_blocking = false, write_blocking = false, &block) pipe

Instance methods inherited from class Reference

==(other : self)
==(other) ==, dup dup, hash hash, inspect(io : IO) : Nil inspect, object_id : UInt64 object_id, pretty_print(pp) : Nil pretty_print, same?(other : Reference)
same?(other : Nil) same?, to_s(io : IO) : Nil to_s

Constructor methods inherited from class Reference

new new

Instance methods inherited from class Object

!=(other) !=, !~(other) !~, ==(other) ==, ===(other : JSON::Any)
===(other : YAML::Any)
===(other) ===, =~(other) =~, class class, dup dup, hash hash, inspect(io : IO)
inspect inspect, itself itself, not_nil! not_nil!, pretty_inspect(width = 79, newline = "\n", indent = 0) : String pretty_inspect, pretty_print(pp : PrettyPrint) : Nil pretty_print, tap(&block) tap, to_json(io : IO)
to_json to_json, to_pretty_json(indent : String = " ")
to_pretty_json(io : IO, indent : String = " ") to_pretty_json, to_s
to_s(io : IO) to_s, to_yaml(io : IO)
to_yaml to_yaml, try(&block) try, unsafe_as(type : T.class) forall T unsafe_as

Constructor methods inherited from class Object

from_json(string_or_io, root : String) : self
from_json(string_or_io) : self from_json, from_yaml(string_or_io) : self from_yaml

Constructor Detail

def self.new(io : IO, sync_close = false) #

Creates a new reader from the given io.


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def self.new(filename : String) #

Creates a new reader from the given filename.


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Class Method Detail

def self.open(io : IO, sync_close = false, &block) #

Creates a new reader from the given io, yields it to the given block, and closes it at the end.


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def self.open(filename : String, &block) #

Creates a new reader from the given filename, yields it to the given block, and closes it at the end.


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Instance Method Detail

def close #

Closes this reader.


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def closed? : Bool #

Returns true if this reader is closed.


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def header : Header? #

Returns the first header in the gzip stream, if any.


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def read(slice : Bytes) #

See IO#read.


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def sync_close=(sync_close) #

Whether to close the enclosed IO when closing this reader.


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def sync_close? : Bool #

Whether to close the enclosed IO when closing this reader.


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def write(slice : Bytes) : Nil #

Always raises IO::Error because this is a read-only IO.


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