How to check if InputStream is Gzipped?

Question

Is there any way to check if InputStream has been gzipped? Here's the code:

public static InputStream decompressStream(InputStream input) {
    try {
        GZIPInputStream gs = new GZIPInputStream(input);
        return gs;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        logger.info("Input stream not in the GZIP format, using standard format");
        return input;
    }
}

I tried this way but it doesn't work as expected - values read from the stream are invalid. EDIT: Added the method I use to compress data:

public static byte[] compress(byte[] content) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    try {
        GZIPOutputStream gs = new GZIPOutputStream(baos);
        gs.write(content);
        gs.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        logger.error("Fatal error occured while compressing data");
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    double ratio = (1.0f * content.length / baos.size());
    if (ratio > 1) {
        logger.info("Compression ratio equals " + ratio);
        return baos.toByteArray();
    }
    logger.info("Compression not needed");
    return content;

}

Answer 1

Not exactly what you are asking but could be an alternative approach if you are using HttpClient:

private static InputStream getInputStream(HttpEntity entity) throws IOException {
  Header encoding = entity.getContentEncoding(); 
  if (encoding != null) {
     if (encoding.getValue().equals("gzip") || encoding.getValue().equals("zip") ||      encoding.getValue().equals("application/x-gzip-compressed")) {
        return new GZIPInputStream(entity.getContent());
     }
  }
  return entity.getContent();
}

Answer 2

I believe this is simpliest way to check whether a byte array is gzip formatted or not, it does not depend on any HTTP entity or mime type support

public static boolean isGzipStream(byte[] bytes) {
      int head = ((int) bytes[0] & 0xff) | ((bytes[1] << 8) & 0xff00);
      return (GZIPInputStream.GZIP_MAGIC == head);
}

Answer 3

This is how to read a file that CAN BE gzipped:

private void read(final File file)
        throws IOException {
    InputStream stream = null;
    try (final InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
            final BufferedInputStream bInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);) {
        bInputStream.mark(1024);
        try {
            stream = new GZIPInputStream(bInputStream);
        } catch (final ZipException e) {
            // not gzipped OR not supported zip format
            bInputStream.reset();
            stream = bInputStream;
        }
        // USE STREAM HERE
    } finally {
        if (stream != null) {
            stream.close();
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

This function works perfectly well in Java:

public static boolean isGZipped(File f) {   
    val raf = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r")
    return GZIPInputStream.GZIP_MAGIC == (raf.read() & 0xff | ((raf.read() << 8) & 0xff00))
}

In scala:

def isGZip(file:File): Boolean = {
   int gzip = 0
   RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(f, "r")
   gzip = raf.read() & 0xff | ((raf.read() << 8) & 0xff00)
   raf.close()
   return gzip == GZIPInputStream.GZIP_MAGIC
}