extern crate flate2_expose; use flate2_expose::write::DeflateDecoder; use flate2_expose::write::DeflateEncoder; use flate2_expose::Compression; use std::io; use std::io::prelude::*; // Compress a sample string and print it after transformation. fn main() { let mut e = DeflateEncoder::new(Vec::new(), Compression::default()); e.write_all(b"Hello World").unwrap(); let bytes = e.finish().unwrap(); println!("{}", decode_reader(bytes).unwrap()); } // Uncompresses a Deflate Encoded vector of bytes and returns a string or error // Here Vec implements Write fn decode_reader(bytes: Vec) -> io::Result { let mut writer = Vec::new(); let mut deflater = DeflateDecoder::new(writer); deflater.write_all(&bytes[..])?; writer = deflater.finish()?; let return_string = String::from_utf8(writer).expect("String parsing error"); Ok(return_string) }