8026127: Deflater/Inflater documentation incomplete/misleading

Reviewed-by: lancea

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/zip/snippet-files/Snippets.java

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+/*
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+package java.util.zip;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+class Snippets {
+
+    void deflaterInflaterExample() {
+        // @start region="DeflaterInflaterExample"
+
+        // Encode a String into bytes
+        String inputString = "blahblahblah\u20AC\u20AC";
+        byte[] input = inputString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        // Compress the bytes
+        ByteArrayOutputStream compressedBaos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        Deflater compressor = new Deflater();
+        try {
+            compressor.setInput(input);
+            // Let the compressor know that the complete input
+            // has been made available
+            compressor.finish();
+            // Keep compressing the input till the compressor
+            // is finished compressing
+            while (!compressor.finished()) {
+                // Use some reasonable size for the temporary buffer
+                // based on the data being compressed
+                byte[] tmpBuffer = new byte[100];
+                int numCompressed = compressor.deflate(tmpBuffer);
+                // Copy over the compressed bytes from the temporary
+                // buffer into the final byte array
+                compressedBaos.write(tmpBuffer, 0, numCompressed);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            // Release the resources held by the compressor
+            compressor.end();
+        }
+
+        // Decompress the bytes
+        Inflater decompressor = new Inflater();
+        ByteArrayOutputStream decompressedBaos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        try {
+            byte[] compressed = compressedBaos.toByteArray();
+            decompressor.setInput(compressed, 0, compressed.length);
+            while (!decompressor.finished()) {
+                // Use some reasonable size for the temporary buffer,
+                // based on the data being decompressed; in this example,
+                // we use a small buffer size
+                byte[] tmpBuffer = new byte[100];
+                int numDecompressed = 0;
+                try {
+                    numDecompressed = decompressor.inflate(tmpBuffer);
+                } catch (DataFormatException dfe) {
+                    // Handle the exception suitably, in this example
+                    // we just rethrow it
+                    throw new RuntimeException(dfe);
+                }
+                // Copy over the decompressed bytes from the temporary
+                // buffer into the final byte array
+                decompressedBaos.write(tmpBuffer, 0, numDecompressed);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            // Release the resources held by the decompressor
+            decompressor.end();
+        }
+        // Decode the bytes into a String
+        String outputString = decompressedBaos.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        // @end
+    }
+
+}