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Compressing data in Smalltalk

I'm sending data (serialize objects) back and forth over TCP sockets. It gets passed as a ByteString, but and changed to a ByteArray when I use it. What can I use to compress the data before sending?

I've found some information about compressing files, but nothing on raw data. If anyone has ideas it would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Solution

  • There are two messages zipped and unzipped but only implemented in String.

    If you start with a ByteArray, then you can do

    someByteArray asString zipped.