GZip Deflater

Since Camel 2.0

The GZip Deflater Data Format is a message compression and de-compression format. It uses the same deflate algorithm that is used in the Zip data format, although some additional headers are provided. This format is produced by popular gzip/gunzip tool. Messages marshalled using GZip compression can be unmarshalled using GZip decompression just prior to being consumed at the endpoint. The compression capability is quite useful when you deal with large XML and Text based payloads or when you read messages previously comressed using gzip tool.

This dataformat is not for working with gzip files such as uncompressing and building gzip files. Instead use the zipfile dataformat.

Options

The GZip Deflater dataformat has no options.

Marshal

In this example we marshal a regular text/XML payload to a compressed payload employing gzip compression format and send it an ActiveMQ queue called MY_QUEUE.

from("direct:start").marshal().gzipDeflater().to("activemq:queue:MY_QUEUE");

Unmarshal

In this example we unmarshal a gzipped payload from an ActiveMQ queue called MY_QUEUE to its original format, and forward it for processing to the UnGZippedMessageProcessor.

from("activemq:queue:MY_QUEUE").unmarshal().gzipDeflater().process(new UnGZippedMessageProcessor());

Dependencies

If you use Maven you could just add the following to your pom.xml, substituting the version number for the latest and greatest release (see the download page for the latest versions).

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-zip-deflater</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
</dependency>