From: Dom <dominant_seventh@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T05:08:17+09:00
Subject: Re: zlib Deflate to java.util.zip inflate problem

Anything, anybody? Little help here...;-)

On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Dom wrote:

> Hello, I'm a total ruby newbie and am developing a simple app that  
> tests an  existing web app. Part of the request I need to post  
> contains data that needs to be compressed as the web app will  
> uncompress it. Currently, the java app just uses simple  
> java.util.zip.Inflater to do this, and I've been able to do this  
> from cocoa to java no problem. Using Ruby to craft the data and post  
> request has presented a problem: when the web app gets the request,  
> I'm getting exceptions from java.utl.zip Unkown Compression format I  
> can't change the back end, only the ruby client side. Does anybody  
> know how to properly use the ruby zlib library to deflate data such  
> that java's built in classes can inflate it? Sorry if this is a  
> basic question; I've googled this to death and hit nothing but dead  
> ends. Here's the call that compresses:
>
> compressedBroadcast = Zlib::Deflate.new(nil, - 
> Zlib::MAX_WBITS).deflate(binaryBroadcastData, Zlib::FINISH)
>
> Other than this, I'm very much enjoying the other Ruby bits. Thanks  
> for any pointers.
>
> Dom
>