use flate2::read::ZlibDecoder; use flate2::write::ZlibEncoder; use flate2::Compression; use std::io; use std::io::prelude::*; // Compress a sample string and print it after transformation. fn main() { let mut e = ZlibEncoder::new(Vec::new(), Compression::default()); e.write_all(b"Hello World").unwrap(); let bytes = e.finish().unwrap(); println!("{}", decode_reader(bytes).unwrap()); } // Uncompresses a Zlib Encoded vector of bytes and returns a string or error // Here &[u8] implements Read fn decode_reader(bytes: Vec) -> io::Result { let mut z = ZlibDecoder::new(&bytes[..]); let mut s = String::new(); z.read_to_string(&mut s)?; Ok(s) }