extern crate flate2_expose; use flate2_expose::write::{GzDecoder, GzEncoder}; 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 = GzEncoder::new(Vec::new(), Compression::default()); e.write_all(b"Hello World").unwrap(); let bytes = e.finish().unwrap(); println!("{}", decode_writer(bytes).unwrap()); } // Uncompresses a Gz Encoded vector of bytes and returns a string or error // Here &[u8] implements Read fn decode_writer(bytes: Vec) -> io::Result { let mut writer = Vec::new(); let mut decoder = GzDecoder::new(writer); decoder.write_all(&bytes[..])?; decoder.try_finish()?; writer = decoder.finish()?; let return_string = String::from_utf8(writer).expect("String parsing error"); Ok(return_string) }