compress

Compression and decompression using gzip/zlib for Quadrate.

Installation

quadpm install https://github.com/quadrate-language/compress

Note: This module requires native compilation. The C source files in src/ must be compiled and linked. Requires zlib.

Usage

use compress

fn main() {
    // Compress with gzip
    "Hello, World!" compress::gzip! -> compressed

    // Decompress
    compressed compress::gunzip! -> original
    original print nl  // "Hello, World!"

    // Compress with specific level
    "data" compress::LevelBest compress::gzip_level! -> best_compressed

    // Raw deflate (no gzip header)
    "data" compress::deflate! -> deflated
    deflated compress::inflate! -> inflated
}

Compression Levels

Constant	Value	Description
LevelFast	1	Fastest compression (least compression)
LevelDefault	6	Default balance of speed and size
LevelBest	9	Best compression (slowest)

Error Codes

Constant	Value	Description
ErrAlloc	2	Memory allocation failed
ErrInvalidArg	3	Invalid argument
ErrCompress	4	Compression failed
ErrDecompress	5	Decompression failed

Functions

Function	Description
gzip!	Compress with gzip format (default level)
gzip_level!	Compress with gzip format at specified level
gunzip!	Decompress gzip data
deflate!	Compress with raw deflate (no header)
inflate!	Decompress raw deflate data

License

Apache-2.0 - See LICENSE for details.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request on GitHub.