package lz4_test import ( "fmt" "io" "os" "strings" "github.com/pierrec/lz4" ) func Example() { // Compress and uncompress an input string. s := "hello world" r := strings.NewReader(s) // The pipe will uncompress the data from the writer. pr, pw := io.Pipe() zw := lz4.NewWriter(pw) zr := lz4.NewReader(pr) go func() { // Compress the input string. _, _ = io.Copy(zw, r) _ = zw.Close() // Make sure the writer is closed _ = pw.Close() // Terminate the pipe }() _, _ = io.Copy(os.Stdout, zr) // Output: // hello world } func ExampleCompressBlock() { s := "hello world" data := []byte(strings.Repeat(s, 100)) buf := make([]byte, len(data)) ht := make([]int, 64<<10) // buffer for the compression table n, err := lz4.CompressBlock(data, buf, ht) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) } if n >= len(data) { fmt.Printf("`%s` is not compressible", s) } buf = buf[:n] // compressed data // Allocated a very large buffer for decompression. out := make([]byte, 10*len(data)) n, err = lz4.UncompressBlock(buf, out) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) } out = out[:n] // uncompressed data fmt.Println(string(out[:len(s)])) // Output: // hello world }