Crate autocompress

Automatically select suitable decoder from magic bytes or encoder from file extension.

Supported file formats

• Gzip
• Zlib (Cannot suggest format from magic bytes and file extension)
• BZip2
• XZ
• Snappy (Cannot suggest format from file extension)
• Z-standard
• LZ4
• Brotli (Cannot suggest format from magic bytes)

Example

use autocompress::open;
use std::io::{self, Read};

fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
  let mut buffer = Vec::new();
  open("testfiles/plain.txt.xz")?.read_to_end(&mut buffer)?;
  assert_eq!(buffer, b"ABCDEFG\r\n1234567");
  Ok(())
}

Structs

Decoder	structure of decoding reader
Encoder	structure of encoding writer

Enums

CompressionLevel	List of compression levels
Format	List of supported file formats

Functions

create	Create new writer from file path. File format is suggested from file extension.
create_or_stdout	Create new writer from a file path. If a file path is None, standard output is used. File format is suggested from file extension.
open	Open new reader from file path. File format is suggested from magic bytes and file extension.
open_or_stdin	Open new reader from file path. If path is None, standard input is used. File format is suggested from magic bytes and file extension.
suggest_format	Suggest file format from magic bytes. This function does not consume data.
suggest_format_from_path	Suggest file format from a path extension