Compression Decoders

Compression decoders read from one input stream (an io_reader called src) and write to an output stream (an io_writer called dst). Wuffs' implementations have one key method: transform_io. It incrementally decompresses the source data.

This method is a coroutine, and does not require either all of the input or all of the output to fit in a single contiguous buffer. It can suspend with the $short_read or $short_write statuses when the src buffer needs re-filling or the dst buffer needs flushing. For an example, look at the example/zcat program, which uses fixed size buffers, but reads arbitrarily long compressed input from stdin and writes arbitrarily long decompressed output to stdout.

Dictionaries

TODO: standardize the various dictionary APIs, after Wuffs v0.2 is released.

API Listing

In Wuffs syntax, the base.io_transformer methods are:

  • dst_history_retain_length() u64
  • get_quirk(key: u32) u64
  • set_quirk!(key: u32, value: u64) status
  • transform_io?(dst: io_writer, src: io_reader, workbuf: slice u8)
  • workbuf_len() range_ii_u64

Implementations

Examples

Quirks

Related Documentation

See also the general remarks on Wuffs' standard library.