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# IO::Compress::RawDeflate

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# IO::Compress::RawDeflate

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  - rawdeflate $input => $output [, OPTS]
  - Notes
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  - Examples
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  - Constructor
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  - Examples
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  - print
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  - eof
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  - Apache::GZip Revisited
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# NAME

IO::Compress::RawDeflate - Write RFC 1951 files/buffers

# SYNOPSIS

        use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    my $status = rawdeflate $input => $output [,OPTS]         or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";    my $z = new IO::Compress::RawDeflate $output [,OPTS]        or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";    $z->print($string);    $z->printf($format, $string);    $z->write($string);    $z->syswrite($string [, $length, $offset]);    $z->flush();    $z->tell();    $z->eof();    $z->seek($position, $whence);    $z->binmode();    $z->fileno();    $z->opened();    $z->autoflush();    $z->input_line_number();    $z->newStream( [OPTS] );        $z->deflateParams();        $z->close() ;    $RawDeflateError ;    # IO::File mode    print $z $string;    printf $z $format, $string;    tell $z    eof $z    seek $z, $position, $whence    binmode $z    fileno $z    close $z ;

# DESCRIPTION

This module provides a Perl interface that allows writing compressed data to files or buffer as defined in RFC 1951.

Note that RFC 1951 data is not a good choice of compression format to use in isolation, especially if you want to auto-detect it.

For reading RFC 1951 files/buffers, see the companion module IO::Uncompress::RawInflate.

# Functional Interface

A top-level function, `rawdeflate` , is provided to carry out "one-shot" compression between buffers and/or files. For finer control over the compression process, see the "OO Interface" section.

        use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    rawdeflate $input => $output [,OPTS]         or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";

The functional interface needs Perl5.005 or better.

## rawdeflate $input => $output [, OPTS]

`rawdeflate` expects at least two parameters, `$input` and `$output` .

### The `$input` parameter

The parameter, `$input` , is used to define the source of the uncompressed data.

It can take one of the following forms:

- A filename

  If the `$input` parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for reading and the input data will be read from it.

- A filehandle

  If the `$input` parameter is a filehandle, the input data will be read from it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard input.

- A scalar reference

  If `$input` is a scalar reference, the input data will be read from `$$input` .

- An array reference

  If `$input` is an array reference, each element in the array must be a filename.

  The input data will be read from each file in turn.

  The complete array will be walked to ensure that it only contains valid filenames before any data is compressed.

- An Input FileGlob string

  If `$input` is a string that is delimited by the characters "<" and ">" `rawdeflate` will assume that it is an input fileglob string. The input is the list of files that match the fileglob.

  If the fileglob does not match any files ...

  See File::GlobMapper for more details.

If the `$input` parameter is any other type, `undef` will be returned.

### The `$output` parameter

The parameter `$output` is used to control the destination of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of these forms.

- A filename

  If the `$output` parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for writing and the compressed data will be written to it.

- A filehandle

  If the `$output` parameter is a filehandle, the compressed data will be written to it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard output.

- A scalar reference

  If `$output` is a scalar reference, the compressed data will be stored in `$$output` .

- An Array Reference

  If `$output` is an array reference, the compressed data will be pushed onto the array.

- An Output FileGlob

  If `$output` is a string that is delimited by the characters "<" and ">" `rawdeflate` will assume that it is an output fileglob string. The output is the list of files that match the fileglob.

  When `$output` is an fileglob string, `$input` must also be a fileglob string. Anything else is an error.

If the `$output` parameter is any other type, `undef` will be returned.

## Notes

When `$input` maps to multiple files/buffers and `$output` is a single file/buffer the input files/buffers will be stored in `$output` as a concatenated series of compressed data streams.

## Optional Parameters

Unless specified below, the optional parameters for `rawdeflate` , `OPTS` , are the same as those used with the OO interface defined in the "Constructor Options" section below.

- `AutoClose => 0|1`

  This option applies to any input or output data streams to `rawdeflate` that are filehandles.

  If `AutoClose` is specified, and the value is true, it will result in all input and/or output filehandles being closed once `rawdeflate` has completed.

  This parameter defaults to 0.

- `BinModeIn => 0|1`

  When reading from a file or filehandle, set `binmode` before reading.

  Defaults to 0.

- `Append => 0|1`

  TODO

## Examples

To read the contents of the file `file1.txt` and write the compressed data to the file `file1.txt.1951` .

        use strict ;    use warnings ;    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    my $input = "file1.txt";    rawdeflate $input => "$input.1951"        or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";

To read from an existing Perl filehandle, `$input` , and write the compressed data to a buffer, `$buffer` .

        use strict ;    use warnings ;    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    use IO::File ;    my $input = new IO::File "<file1.txt"        or die "Cannot open 'file1.txt': $!\n" ;    my $buffer ;    rawdeflate $input => \$buffer         or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";

To compress all files in the directory "/my/home" that match "*.txt" and store the compressed data in the same directory

        use strict ;    use warnings ;    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    rawdeflate '</my/home/*.txt>' => '<*.1951>'        or die "rawdeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";

and if you want to compress each file one at a time, this will do the trick

        use strict ;    use warnings ;    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError) ;    for my $input ( glob "/my/home/*.txt" )    {        my $output = "$input.1951" ;        rawdeflate $input => $output             or die "Error compressing '$input': $RawDeflateError\n";    }

# OO Interface

## Constructor

The format of the constructor for `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` is shown below

        my $z = new IO::Compress::RawDeflate $output [,OPTS]        or die "IO::Compress::RawDeflate failed: $RawDeflateError\n";

It returns an `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` object on success and undef on failure. The variable `$RawDeflateError` will contain an error message on failure.

If you are running Perl 5.005 or better the object, `$z` , returned from IO::Compress::RawDeflate can be used exactly like an IO::File filehandle. This means that all normal output file operations can be carried out with `$z` . For example, to write to a compressed file/buffer you can use either of these forms

        $z->print("hello world\n");    print $z "hello world\n";

The mandatory parameter `$output` is used to control the destination of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of these forms.

- A filename

  If the `$output` parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for writing and the compressed data will be written to it.

- A filehandle

  If the `$output` parameter is a filehandle, the compressed data will be written to it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard output.

- A scalar reference

  If `$output` is a scalar reference, the compressed data will be stored in `$$output` .

If the `$output` parameter is any other type, `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` ::new will return undef.

## Constructor Options

`OPTS` is any combination of the following options:

- `AutoClose => 0|1`

  This option is only valid when the `$output` parameter is a filehandle. If specified, and the value is true, it will result in the `$output` being closed once either the `close` method is called or the `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` object is destroyed.

  This parameter defaults to 0.

- `Append => 0|1`

  Opens `$output` in append mode.

  The behaviour of this option is dependent on the type of `$output` .

  - A Buffer

    If `$output` is a buffer and `Append` is enabled, all compressed data will be append to the end if `$output` . Otherwise `$output` will be cleared before any data is written to it.

  - A Filename

    If `$output` is a filename and `Append` is enabled, the file will be opened in append mode. Otherwise the contents of the file, if any, will be truncated before any compressed data is written to it.

  - A Filehandle

    If `$output` is a filehandle, the file pointer will be positioned to the end of the file via a call to `seek` before any compressed data is written to it. Otherwise the file pointer will not be moved.

  This parameter defaults to 0.

- `Merge => 0|1`

  This option is used to compress input data and append it to an existing compressed data stream in `$output` . The end result is a single compressed data stream stored in `$output` .

  It is a fatal error to attempt to use this option when `$output` is not an RFC 1951 data stream.

  There are a number of other limitations with the `Merge` option:

  1. This module needs to have been built with zlib 1.2.1 or better to work. A fatal error will be thrown if `Merge` is used with an older version of zlib.

  2. If `$output` is a file or a filehandle, it must be seekable.

  This parameter defaults to 0.

- -Level

  Defines the compression level used by zlib. The value should either be a number between 0 and 9 (0 means no compression and 9 is maximum compression), or one of the symbolic constants defined below.

         Z_NO_COMPRESSION   Z_BEST_SPEED   Z_BEST_COMPRESSION   Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION

  The default is Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION.

  Note, these constants are not imported by `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` by default.

          use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(:strategy);    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(:constants);    use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(:all);

- -Strategy

  Defines the strategy used to tune the compression. Use one of the symbolic constants defined below.

         Z_FILTERED   Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY   Z_RLE   Z_FIXED   Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY

  The default is Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY.

- `Strict => 0|1`

  This is a placeholder option.

## Examples

TODO

# Methods

## print

Usage is

        $z->print($data)    print $z $data

Compresses and outputs the contents of the `$data` parameter. This has the same behaviour as the `print` built-in.

Returns true if successful.

## printf

Usage is

        $z->printf($format, $data)    printf $z $format, $data

Compresses and outputs the contents of the `$data` parameter.

Returns true if successful.

## syswrite

Usage is

        $z->syswrite $data    $z->syswrite $data, $length    $z->syswrite $data, $length, $offset

Compresses and outputs the contents of the `$data` parameter.

Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or `undef` if unsuccessful.

## write

Usage is

        $z->write $data    $z->write $data, $length    $z->write $data, $length, $offset

Compresses and outputs the contents of the `$data` parameter.

Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or `undef` if unsuccessful.

## flush

Usage is

        $z->flush;    $z->flush($flush_type);

Flushes any pending compressed data to the output file/buffer.

This method takes an optional parameter, `$flush_type` , that controls how the flushing will be carried out. By default the `$flush_type` used is `Z_FINISH` . Other valid values for `$flush_type` are `Z_NO_FLUSH` , `Z_SYNC_FLUSH` , `Z_FULL_FLUSH` and `Z_BLOCK` . It is strongly recommended that you only set the `flush_type` parameter if you fully understand the implications of what it does - overuse of `flush` can seriously degrade the level of compression achieved. See the `zlib` documentation for details.

Returns true on success.

## tell

Usage is

        $z->tell()    tell $z

Returns the uncompressed file offset.

## eof

Usage is

        $z->eof();    eof($z);

Returns true if the `close` method has been called.

## seek

        $z->seek($position, $whence);    seek($z, $position, $whence);

Provides a sub-set of the `seek` functionality, with the restriction that it is only legal to seek forward in the output file/buffer. It is a fatal error to attempt to seek backward.

Empty parts of the file/buffer will have NULL (0x00) bytes written to them.

The `$whence` parameter takes one the usual values, namely SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END.

Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.

## binmode

Usage is

        $z->binmode    binmode $z ;

This is a noop provided for completeness.

## opened

        $z->opened()

Returns true if the object currently refers to a opened file/buffer.

## autoflush

        my $prev = $z->autoflush()    my $prev = $z->autoflush(EXPR)

If the `$z` object is associated with a file or a filehandle, this method returns the current autoflush setting for the underlying filehandle. If `EXPR` is present, and is non-zero, it will enable flushing after every write/print operation.

If `$z` is associated with a buffer, this method has no effect and always returns `undef`.

Note that the special variable `$|` cannot be used to set or retrieve the autoflush setting.

## input_line_number

        $z->input_line_number()    $z->input_line_number(EXPR)

This method always returns `undef` when compressing.

## fileno

        $z->fileno()    fileno($z)

If the `$z` object is associated with a file or a filehandle, `fileno` will return the underlying file descriptor. Once the `close` method is called `fileno` will return `undef`.

If the `$z` object is is associated with a buffer, this method will return `undef`.

## close

        $z->close() ;    close $z ;

Flushes any pending compressed data and then closes the output file/buffer.

For most versions of Perl this method will be automatically invoked if the IO::Compress::RawDeflate object is destroyed (either explicitly or by the variable with the reference to the object going out of scope). The exceptions are Perl versions 5.005 through 5.00504 and 5.8.0. In these cases, the `close` method will be called automatically, but not until global destruction of all live objects when the program is terminating.

Therefore, if you want your scripts to be able to run on all versions of Perl, you should call `close` explicitly and not rely on automatic closing.

Returns true on success, otherwise 0.

If the `AutoClose` option has been enabled when the IO::Compress::RawDeflate object was created, and the object is associated with a file, the underlying file will also be closed.

## newStream([OPTS])

Usage is

        $z->newStream( [OPTS] )

Closes the current compressed data stream and starts a new one.

OPTS consists of any of the the options that are available when creating the `$z` object.

See the "Constructor Options" section for more details.

## deflateParams

Usage is

        $z->deflateParams

TODO

# Importing

A number of symbolic constants are required by some methods in `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` . None are imported by default.

- :all

  Imports `rawdeflate` , `$RawDeflateError` and all symbolic constants that can be used by `IO::Compress::RawDeflate` . Same as doing this

          use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(rawdeflate $RawDeflateError :constants) ;

- :constants

  Import all symbolic constants. Same as doing this

          use IO::Compress::RawDeflate qw(:flush :level :strategy) ;

- :flush

  These symbolic constants are used by the `flush` method.

          Z_NO_FLUSH    Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH    Z_SYNC_FLUSH    Z_FULL_FLUSH    Z_FINISH    Z_BLOCK

- :level

  These symbolic constants are used by the `Level` option in the constructor.

          Z_NO_COMPRESSION    Z_BEST_SPEED    Z_BEST_COMPRESSION    Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION

- :strategy

  These symbolic constants are used by the `Strategy` option in the constructor.

          Z_FILTERED    Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY    Z_RLE    Z_FIXED    Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY

# EXAMPLES

## Apache::GZip Revisited

See IO::Compress::FAQ

## Working with Net::FTP

See IO::Compress::FAQ

# SEE ALSO

Compress::Zlib, IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, IO::Compress::Deflate, IO::Uncompress::Inflate, IO::Uncompress::RawInflate, IO::Compress::Bzip2, IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2, IO::Compress::Lzop, IO::Uncompress::UnLzop, IO::Compress::Lzf, IO::Uncompress::UnLzf, IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate, IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress

Compress::Zlib::FAQ

File::GlobMapper, Archive::Zip, Archive::Tar, IO::Zlib

For RFC 1950, 1951 and 1952 see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1950.html, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1951.html and http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1952.html

The zlib compression library was written by Jean-loup Gailly gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu and Mark Adler madler@alumni.caltech.edu.

The primary site for the zlib compression library is http://www.zlib.org.

The primary site for gzip is http://www.gzip.org.

# AUTHOR

This module was written by Paul Marquess, pmqs@cpan.org.

# MODIFICATION HISTORY

See the Changes file.

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- Functional Interface
  - rawdeflate $input => $output [, OPTS]
  - Notes
  - Optional Parameters
  - Examples
- OO Interface
  - Constructor
  - Constructor Options
  - Examples
- Methods
  - print
  - printf
  - syswrite
  - write
  - flush
  - tell
  - eof
  - seek
  - binmode
  - opened
  - autoflush
  - input_line_number
  - fileno
  - close
  - newStream([OPTS])
  - deflateParams
- Importing
- EXAMPLES
  - Apache::GZip Revisited
  - Working with Net::FTP
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
- MODIFICATION HISTORY
- COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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