Gets the uncompressed size of this GZIPInputStream

Question

I have a GZIPInputStream that I constructed from another ByteArrayInputStream. I want to know the original (uncompressed) length for the gzip data. Although I can read to the end of the GZIPInputStream, then count the number, it will cost much time and waste CPU. I would like to know the size before read it.

Is there a similiar method like ZipEntry.getSize() for GZIPInputStream:

public long getSize ()
Since: API Level 1
Gets the uncompressed size of this ZipEntry.

Answer 1

A more compact version of the calculation based on the 4 tail bytes (avoids using a byte buffer, calls Integer.reverseBytes to reverse the byte order of read bytes).

private static long getUncompressedSize(Path inputPath) throws IOException
{
    long size = -1;
    try (RandomAccessFile fp = new RandomAccessFile(inputPath.toFile(), "r")) {        
        fp.seek(fp.length() - Integer.BYTES);
        int n = fp.readInt();
        size = Integer.toUnsignedLong(Integer.reverseBytes(n));
    }
    return size;
}

Answer 2

Based on @Alexander's answer:

RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(inputFilePath + ".gz", "r");
raf.seek(raf.length() - 4);
byte[] bytes = new byte[4];
raf.read(bytes);
fileSize = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN).getInt();
if (fileSize < 0)
  fileSize += (1L << 32);
raf.close();