snappy.zig

A Zig library providing bindings to the Google Snappy compression library. Snappy is a fast compression/decompression library that aims for high speeds and reasonable compression ratios.

Requirements

• Zig 0.14.0 or later

Usage

1. zig fetch --save=snappy git+https://github.com/chainsafe/snappy.zig

2. This dependency includes:

• the "snappy" module - a zig module providing idiomatic zig bindings
• the "snappy" artifact - the upstream snappy static library and headers

1. In your build.zig, add the module:

const snappy_dep = b.dependency("snappy", .{});

const snappy_mod = snappy_dep.module("snappy");

const snappy_lib = snappy_dep.artifact("snappy");

1. Import the module and use the functions:

const snappy = @import("snappy");

const input = "Hello, world!";
const compressed = try allocator.alloc(u8, snappy.maxCompressedLength(input.len));
defer allocator.free(compressed);

const compressed_len = try snappy.compress(input, compressed);
const uncompressed = try allocator.alloc(u8, try snappy.uncompressedLength(compressed[0..compressed_len]));
defer allocator.free(uncompressed);

const uncompressed_len = try snappy.uncompress(compressed[0..compressed_len], uncompressed);

API

• compress(input: []const u8, compressed: []u8) Error!usize: Compresses input data into compressed buffer. Returns compressed length.
• uncompress(compressed: []const u8, uncompressed: []u8) Error!usize: Decompresses compressed data into uncompressed buffer. Returns uncompressed length.
• maxCompressedLength(source_length: usize) usize: Returns the maximum possible compressed size for given input length.
• uncompressedLength(compressed: []const u8) Error!usize: Returns the uncompressed length of compressed data.
• validateCompressedBuffer(compressed: []const u8) Error!void: Validates if compressed data is valid.

License

MIT