Crate lzip

Lzip compression for Rust

This library contains bindings to lzlib to support lzip compression and decompression for Rust. The streams offered in this library are primarily found in the reader and writer modules. Both compressors and decompressors are available in each module depending on what operation you need.

Example

use std::io::prelude::*;
use lzip::read::{LzEncoder, LzDecoder};

// Round trip some bytes from a byte source, into a compressor, into a
// decompressor, and finally into a vector.
let data = "Hello, World!".as_bytes();
let compressor = LzEncoder::new(data, 9);
let mut decompressor = LzDecoder::new(compressor);

let mut contents = String::new();
decompressor.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
assert_eq!(contents, "Hello, World!");

Async I/O

This crate optionally can support async I/O streams with the Tokio stack via the tokio feature of this crate:

lzip = { version = "0.1", features = ["tokio"] }

All methods are internally capable of working with streams that may return ErrorKind::WouldBlock when they’re not ready to perform the particular operation.

Note that care needs to be taken when using these objects, however. The Tokio runtime, in particular, requires that data is fully flushed before dropping streams. For compatibility with blocking streams all streams are flushed/written when they are dropped, and this is not always a suitable time to perform I/O. If I/O streams are flushed before drop, however, then these operations will be a noop.