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Decompress a GZIP File in Java example

In the previous tutorial we saw how to compress a File with the GZIP method. In this tutorial we are going to see how to decompress the File that was compressed with the GZIP method.

Basically all you have to do to decompress a gzipped file is:

  • Create a FileInputStream to the compressed File.
  • Create a GZIPInputStream to the above FileInputStream.
  • Create a FileOutputStream to the decompressed File.
  • Read the bytes from the compressed File using the GZIPInputStream and write them to the uncompressed File.

Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:

package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

public class CompressFileGzip {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		String gzip_filepath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\files\\test.gzip";
		String decopressed_filepath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\files\\test2.txt";

		CompressFileGzip gZipFile = new CompressFileGzip();

		gZipFile.unGunzipFile(gzip_filepath, decopressed_filepath);
	}

	public void unGunzipFile(String compressedFile, String decompressedFile) {

		byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

		try {

			FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream(compressedFile);

			GZIPInputStream gZIPInputStream = new GZIPInputStream(fileIn);

			FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(decompressedFile);

			int bytes_read;

			while ((bytes_read = gZIPInputStream.read(buffer)) > 0) {

				fileOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytes_read);
			}

			gZIPInputStream.close();
			fileOutputStream.close();

			System.out.println("The file was decompressed successfully!");

		} catch (IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

}

Output:

The file was decompressed successfully!

Here is the full interface to compress and decompress Files using the GZIP method:

package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

public class CompressFileGzip {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		String source_filepath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\files\\test.txt";
		String gzip_filepath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\files\\test.gzip";
		String decopressed_filepath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\files\\test2.txt";

		CompressFileGzip gZipFile = new CompressFileGzip();
		gZipFile.gzipFile(source_filepath, gzip_filepath);
		gZipFile.unGunzipFile(gzip_filepath, decopressed_filepath);
	}

	public void gzipFile(String source_filepath, String destinaton_zip_filepath) {

		byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

		try {

			FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(
					destinaton_zip_filepath);

			GZIPOutputStream gzipOuputStream = new GZIPOutputStream(
					fileOutputStream);

			FileInputStream fileInput = new FileInputStream(source_filepath);

			int bytes_read;

			while ((bytes_read = fileInput.read(buffer)) > 0) {
				gzipOuputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytes_read);
			}

			fileInput.close();

			gzipOuputStream.finish();
			gzipOuputStream.close();

			System.out.println("The file was compressed successfully!");

		} catch (IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public void unGunzipFile(String compressedFile, String decompressedFile) {

		byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

		try {

			FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream(compressedFile);

			GZIPInputStream gZIPInputStream = new GZIPInputStream(fileIn);

			FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(decompressedFile);

			int bytes_read;

			while ((bytes_read = gZIPInputStream.read(buffer)) > 0) {

				fileOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytes_read);
			}

			gZIPInputStream.close();
			fileOutputStream.close();

			System.out.println("The file was decompressed successfully!");

		} catch (IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

}

Output:

The file was compressed successfully!
The file was decompressed successfully!

 
This was an example on how to decompress a compressed File with the GZIP method.

Nikos Maravitsas

Nikos has graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During his studies he discovered his interests about software development and he has successfully completed numerous assignments in a variety of fields. Currently, his main interests are system’s security, parallel systems, artificial intelligence, operating systems, system programming, telecommunications, web applications, human – machine interaction and mobile development.
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