thesaurus 0.3.0

An offline thesaurus library for Rust.
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use libflate::gzip::Encoder;
use std::{fs, io::Write};

fn main() {
    // Tell Cargo that if the dictionary file changes, to rerun this build script.
    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/moby_thesaurus.txt");

    // load the dictionary in, sort alphabetically by word
    let dict =
        fs::read_to_string("./src/moby_thesaurus.txt").expect("Failed to read `moby_thesaurus.txt` file");

    // for some reason running `gzip -9 --keep ./src/dictionary.ir` (on the ir) gives better compression by like, 600kb,
    // - if you are a good person you will figure out how to correct the compressor config / algorithm used here
    let compressed = {
        let mut encoder = Encoder::new(Vec::new()).expect("Failed to create compressor");
        encoder
            .write_all(dict.as_bytes())
            .expect("Failed to compress dictionary");
        encoder
            .finish()
            .into_result()
            .expect("Failed to compress dictionary")
    };

    let target_dir = std::env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();

    fs::write(format!("{}/{}", target_dir, "thesaurus.gz"), compressed).expect(&format!(
        "Failed to write compressed dictionary to `{}/thesaurus.gz`",
        target_dir
    ));
}