Godzippa!

gzip Compression / Decompression Category for NSData & NSFileManager

Example Usage

NSData

NSData *originalData = [@"Look out! It's..." dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSData *compressedData = [originalData dataByGZipCompressingWithError:nil];
NSData *decompressedData = [compressedData dataByGZipDecompressingDataWithError:nil];
NSLog(@"%@ %@", [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[decompressedData bytes]], @"Godzippa!");

NSFileManager

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSURL *file = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/path/to/file.txt"];
NSError *error = nil;

[fileManager GZipCompressFile:file
        writingContentsToFile:[file URLByAppendingPathExtension:@"gz"]
                        error:&error];

Requirements

• zlib - In the "Link Binary With Libraries" Build Phase of your Target, add libz.dylib

Contact

Mattt Thompson

• http://github.com/mattt
• http://twitter.com/mattt
• m@mattt.me

License

Godzippa! is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.