Code to Compress and Decompress JSON Object

Following code can be used to compress and decompress JSON Object



import java.util.zip.*;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class Compressor{
    public static byte[] compress(byte[] content){
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try{
            GZIPOutputStream gzipOutputStream = new GZIPOutputStream(byteArrayOutputStream);
            gzipOutputStream.write(content);
            gzipOutputStream.close();
        } catch(IOException e){
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        System.out.printf("Compression ratio %f\n", (1.0f * content.length/byteArrayOutputStream.size()));
        return byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
    }

    public static byte[] decompress(byte[] contentBytes){
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try{
            IOUtils.copy(new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(contentBytes)), out);
        } catch(IOException e){
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        return out.toByteArray();
    }

    public static boolean notWorthCompressing(String contentType){
        return contentType.contains("jpeg")
                || contentType.contains("pdf")
                || contentType.contains("zip")
                || contentType.contains("mpeg")
                || contentType.contains("avi");
    }
}

Note : This code will required jackson-core-asl-1.5.3.jar and jackson-mapper-asl-1.5.8.jar in your classpath.