snappy.zig

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

The Snappy framing format is supported in this library.

Requires 0.14.0 or later.

Usage

Add the dependency to your project:

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

This dependency includes:

• the "snappy" module - a zig module providing idiomatic zig bindings to the original snappy (raw.zig) and optional snappy frames support (frame.zig)
• the "snappy" artifact - the upstream snappy static library and headers

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");

Import snappy and use the functions. You can choose between using raw or frame compression/decompression:

const snappy = @import("snappy").raw;
// or const snappy = @import("snappy").frame;

An example using the raw library:

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.raw.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.raw.uncompress(compressed[0..compressed_len], uncompressed);

An example using the frame library:

const snappy = @import("snappy");

const input = "Hello, world!";
const compressed = try snappy.frame.compress(allocator, input);
defer allocator.free(compressed);

var buf = std.ArrayList(u8).init(allocator);
defer buf.deinit();
const slice = (try snappy.frame.uncompress(compressed, &buf)).?;
defer allocator.free(slice);

API

raw

Supports raw snappy compression and decompression.

• 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.

frame

Supports snappy frames compression and decompression.

• compress(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, bytes: []const u8) CompressError![]u8: Frame bytes into Snappy chunks, choosing compressed payloads only when they are smaller than their uncompressed counterparts.

• uncompress(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, bytes: []const u8) UncompressError!?[]const u8: Parse framed Snappy data and return the uncompressed payload, or null if the frame explicitly signalled an empty buffer.

License

MIT