Hi guys, a naive doubt, please bear with me. Any good example with gzipping API responses in Kotlin?

# server

[Mani]

Hi guys, a naive doubt, please bear with me. Any good example with gzipping API responses in Kotlin?

[Casey Brooks]

Ktor has compression built-in to its core, just needs to be enabled https://ktor.io/servers/features/compression.html

[Casey Brooks]

For any other framework, I’m sure there are standard compression mechanisms there as well. It’s not really a concern of the Kotlin language, but the framework you’re using

[Mani]

spring-boot

[zpearce]

There's a #spring channel

[Felipe Assoline]

Spring Boot has compression too.
Just a yml/properties configuration.

server.compression.enabled: true

I always check built in features viewing this doc:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

[Mani]

fun gzip(content: String): ByteArray {
        val bos = ByteArrayOutputStream()
        GZIPOutputStream(bos).bufferedWriter(UTF_8).use { it.write(content) }
        return bos.toByteArray()
    }

I used this piece of code. The response times are crazy.

[tipsy]

GZIPOutputStream(res.outputStream, true).use { gzippedStream ->
    content.copyTo(gzippedStream)
}

[tipsy]

just write it directly to the client