lzjb

lzjb is a fast pure-JavaScript implementation of LZJB compression/decompression. It was originally written by "Bear" based on the OpenSolaris C implementations. C. Scott Ananian cleaned up the source code and packaged it for node and volo.

How to install

npm install lzjb

or

volo add cscott/lzjb

This package uses Typed Arrays and so requires node.js >= 0.5.5. Full browser compatibility table is available at caniuse.com; briefly: IE 10, Firefox 4, Chrome 7, or Safari 5.1.

Testing

npm install
npm test

Usage

There is a binary available in bin:

$ bin/lzjb --help
$ echo "Test me" | bin/lzjb -z > test.lzjb
$ bin/lzjb -d test.lzjb
Test me

From JavaScript:

var lzjb = require('lzjb');
var data = new Buffer('Example data', 'utf8');
var compressed = lzjb.compressFile(data);
var uncompressed = lzjb.uncompressFile(compressed);
// convert from array back to string
var data2 = new Buffer(uncompressed).toString('utf8');
console.log(data2);

There is a streaming interface as well.

See the tests in the tests/ directory for further usage examples.

Documentation

require('lzjb') returns a lzjb object. It contains two main methods. The first is a function accepting one or two parameters:

lzjb.compressFile = function(input, [output])

The input argument can be a "stream" object (which must implement the readByte method), or a Uint8Array, Buffer, or array.

If you omit the second argument, compressFile will return a JavaScript array containing the byte values of the compressed data. If you pass a second argument, it must be a "stream" object (which must implement the writeByte method).

The second exported method is a function accepting one or two parameters:

lzjb.decompressFile = function(input, [output])

The input parameter is as above.

If you omit the second argument, decompressFile will return a Uint8Array, Buffer or JavaScript array with the decompressed data, depending on what your platform supports. For most modern platforms (modern browsers, recent node.js releases) the returned value will be a Uint8Array.

If you provide the second argument, it must be a "stream", implementing the writeByte method.

Related projects

• https://code.google.com/p/jslzjb/ Original JavaScript port by Bear
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB Wikipedia article on LZJB compression
• http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/os/compress.c "compress" source code (describes LZJB algorithm)
• http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/lzjb.c In-kernel implementation of LZJB

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Nuwa Information Co., Ltd, and individual contributors.

Copyright (c) 2013 C. Scott Ananian

All rights reserved.

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