ZIP library UncompressData()

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On 11/09/2008 at 21:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   R9.5-R11 
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Okay, a simple question:

Does UncompressData() understand partial buffers due to file reads for zlib decompression?

I'm reading a set number of bytes (per round) from a zlib-compressed file and then calling UncompressData(). So far, it always errors out at UncompressData(). I assume that the pDestData argument returns a pointer to a memory buffer that C4D allocated (thus the required GeFree()). ZBUFLEN = 65536L. I'm sorry - it is not possible to expect to be able to allocate a memory buffer to hold possible files (they may be in the hundreds of Megabytes!). Here's the method involved:

> // Decompress infile into outfile, return outfile \> //\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------\* \> Bool myZLib::DecompressFile(const Filename& inname, const Filename& outname, char\* buf) \> //\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------\* \> { \>      AutoAlloc<BaseFile>     out; \>      AutoAlloc<BaseFile>     in; \>      if (!(in && out))          return FALSE; \> \>      if (!in->Open(inname, GE_READ, FILE_NODIALOG, GE_INTEL)) \>      { \>           GePrint("Error: in->Open"); \>           return FALSE; \>      } \>      if (!out->Open(outname, GE_WRITE, FILE_NODIALOG, GE_INTEL)) \>      { \>           GePrint("Error: out->Open"); \>           return FALSE; \>      } \> #ifdef     OS64 \>      VLONG     len; \> #else \>      LONG     len; \> #endif \>      LONG     olen; \>      char\*     obuf; \>      for (;;) \>      { \>           len = in->ReadBytes(buf, ZBUFLEN); \>           if (len < 0) \>           { \>                GePrint("Error: len < 0"); \>                return FALSE; \>           } \>           if (len == 0)     return TRUE; \>           if (!UncompressData(buf, len, (void\*&)obuf, olen)) \>           { \>                GePrint("Error: UncompressData"); // ALWAYS ERRORS HERE! \>                return FALSE; \>           } \>           if (!out->WriteBytes(obuf, olen)) \>           { \>                GeFree(obuf); \>                GePrint("Error: WriteBytes"); \>                return FALSE; \>           } \>           GeFree(obuf); \>      } \>      if (!out->Close()) \>      { \>           GePrint("Error: out->Close"); \>           return FALSE; \>      } \>      if (!in->Close()) \>      { \>           GePrint("Error: in->Close"); \>           return FALSE; \>      } \>      return TRUE; \> }

Thanks,

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On 11/09/2008 at 23:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi!

You only want to decrompress zip files?

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On 11/09/2008 at 23:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

zlib compressed files. Zip files 'use' zlib compression but also include other information (such as folder/file structures). These files are simply compressed using zlib compression.

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On 11/09/2008 at 23:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I used the class "ZipFile" to extract a zip file with its directory structure. You are able to read and write comments, and other stuff too.

A few lines are enough to extract the whole content of a zip file to a directory. A small code snippet:
zlib
See my last post.

Bye...

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On 11/09/2008 at 23:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Supposedly, CompressData() and UncompressData() work with zlib compressed data.

Remember that there is a difference between this and zip files. I've already tried using the 'zip' library on these files without success - because they aren't zip archives. They are just single files that have been zlib compressed (think RLE encoding).

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On 11/09/2008 at 23:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi!, ah, ok.. I see.. :)

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On 13/09/2008 at 13:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Bumping this up.

Yes, indeed CompressData() and UncompressData() work if the full buffer is being compressed or decompressed. I converted all the zlib-compressed memory buffer code and these work splendidly.

It appears that, unlike the zlib stream support provided by gzOpen()/gzRead()/gzClose(), the C4D SDK routines cannot handle segmented buffer decompression - all or nothing. 'All' is not going to be a viable option here.

Any thoughts here?