Re: C++ Deflate (zlib-like) library

From: Viktor Sehr (viktor.sehr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-03-06 18:02:41

I really would appreciate if the library could be used as header only, and
contained some sort of abbreviation of these convenience functions:
auto compress(const std::vector<uint8_t>& uncompressed) ->
std::vector<uint8_t>;
auto decompress(const std::vector<uint8_t>& compressed) ->
std::optional<std::vector<uint8_t>>;

/Viktor

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:50 PM Janson R. via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have recently been working on a C++ compression library very similar
> to zlib after trying to implement some HTTP compression support over
> Boost.Beast and realizing after some discussion with sir Falco that
> while it would be a nice builtin feature for Beast, it would possibly be
> a better idea to have zlib-like compression be a separate library in
> order to be properly maintainable and likely more useful.
> The current working version can be viewed at
> https://github.com/ryanjanson/Deflate
>
> however the API could still be helped in terms of modern C++ usability,
> and what I currently have in mind can be found annotated here:
> https://gist.github.com/AeroStun/687ec9ca69404e26f8e02e5084926036
>
> Do you thing that this could be useful to have as its own entity in the
> Boost environment? Any kind of feedback on the idea and the library is
> warmly welcome.
>
>
> Regards,
> Janson
>
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