nimcompression/nimsnappyc

Snappy-C lib wrapper for Nim

NimSnappyC

NimSnappyC provides a Snappy compression/decompression for Nim through wrapping to snappy-c.

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Installation

Add this to your application's .nimble file:

requires "nimsnappyc"

or to install globally run:

nimble install nimsnappyc

Usage

import nimsnappyc

# Compress a string:
let data = "0123456789abcdef"
let compressed = snappyCompress(data)

# Get the uncompressed length of compressed data:
let uncompressedLen = snappyUncompressedLength(compressed)

# Uncompress a compressed data:
let uncompressed = snappyUncompress(compressed)

Raises the SnappyError exception on errors.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/NimCompression/nimsnappyc/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

MIT

Authors: NimCompression

Snappy-C License

BSD 3-Clause License

Author: Andi Kleen

nimsnappyc's Issues

Compressing empty input doesnt work

Everywhere where you used input[0] a check for len == 0 is needed, so compressing empty input works too.