Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Compress Large Binary File in Blocks

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Compresses a large binary file in blocks. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

facSrc = Chilkat::CkFileAccess.new()
facDest = Chilkat::CkFileAccess.new()

#  Open a large binary file for reading.
success = facSrc.OpenForRead("qa_data/bmp/big.bmp")
if (success == false)
    print facSrc.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  If we compress in 64K chunks, find out how many blocks there will be.
blockSize = 65536
numBlocks = facSrc.GetNumBlocks(blockSize)

#  Open an output file for the compressed data.
success = facDest.OpenForWrite("c:/temp/qa_output/compressedBmp.dat")
if (success == false)
    print facDest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

compress = Chilkat::CkCompression.new()
compress.put_Algorithm("deflate")

fileBytes = Chilkat::CkByteData.new()
compressedBytes = Chilkat::CkByteData.new()

#  Assuming numBlocks > 1
compress.put_FirstChunk(true)
compress.put_LastChunk(false)

i = 0
while i < numBlocks
    success = facSrc.ReadBlock(i,blockSize,fileBytes)
    success = compress.CompressBytes(fileBytes,compressedBytes)

    facDest.FileWrite(compressedBytes)

    i = i + 1

    compress.put_FirstChunk(false)
    if (i == (numBlocks - 1))
        compress.put_LastChunk(true)
    end

end

facSrc.FileClose()
facDest.FileClose()

print "Finished compressing file." + "\n";