GzipCompressor.java

package com.epam.wilma.test.server.compress.gzip;
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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

import com.epam.wilma.test.server.SystemException;

/**
 * Responsible for compressing an input stream into gzip.
 * @author Tamas_Bihari
 *
 */
public class GzipCompressor {

    /**
     * Compresses an {@link InputStream} object into gzip.
     * @param source the input stream that will be compressed.
     * @return a {@link ByteArrayOutputStream} containing gzipped byte array.
     */
    public ByteArrayOutputStream compress(final InputStream source) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try {
            GZIPOutputStream gout = new GZIPOutputStream(baos);
            //... Code to read from your original uncompressed data and write to gout.
            IOUtils.copy(source, gout);
            gout.finish();
            gout.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new SystemException("error", e);
        }
        return baos;
    }
}