Compression

Load and write a variety of compressed formats

Description

This is a collection of drivers which enable transparent compression and decompression of data, specifically the following eponymous drivers:

  • gzip
  • zlib
  • deflate
  • bzip2
  • xz
  • zstd

Input/output

It is assumed that during reading decompression is the desired operation, compression desired when writing.

In both cases, IO \to IO is the recommended pair of input/output formats, but IO or String to Vector{UInt8} or String are also supported.

Required packages

  • CodecZlib, for the following drivers:

    • gzip
    • zlib
    • deflate

  • CodecBzip2 for the bzip2 driver

  • CodecXz for the xz driver

  • CodecZstd for the zstd driver

Usage examples

[[iris-raw.loader]]
driver = "gzip"