ZstandardArchive.ZstandardArchive

ZstandardArchive()

Initializes a new instance of the ZstandardArchive class prepared for compressing.

public ZstandardArchive()

The following example shows how to compress a file.

using (ZstandardArchive archive = new ZstandardArchive()) 
{
    archive.SetSource("data.bin");
    archive.Save("archive.zst");
}

Initializes a new instance of the ZstandardArchive class prepared for decompressing.

public ZstandardArchive(Stream sourceStream, ZstandardLoadOptions options = null)

Parameter	Type	Description
sourceStream	Stream	The source of the archive.
options	ZstandardLoadOptions	The options to load archive with.

This constructor does not decompress. See Open method for decompressing.

Open an archive from a stream and extract it to a MemoryStream

var ms = new MemoryStream();
using (GzipArchive archive = new ZstandardArchive(File.OpenRead("archive.zst")))
  archive.Open().CopyTo(ms);

Initializes a new instance of the ZstandardArchive class.

public ZstandardArchive(string path, ZstandardLoadOptions options = null)

Parameter	Type	Description
path	String	The path to the archive file.
options	ZstandardLoadOptions	The options to load archive with.

exception	condition
ArgumentNullException	path is null.
SecurityException	The caller does not have the required permission to access.
ArgumentException	The path is empty, contains only white spaces, or contains invalid characters.
UnauthorizedAccessException	Access to file path is denied.
PathTooLongException	The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length. For example, on Windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters, and file names must be less than 260 characters.
NotSupportedException	File at path contains a colon (:) in the middle of the string.

This constructor does not decompress. See Open method for decompressing.

Open an archive from file by path and extract it to a MemoryStream

var ms = new MemoryStream();
using (ZstandardArchive archive = new ZstandardArchive("archive.zst"))
  archive.Open().CopyTo(ms);