WordpressEbookScraper2/Scraper/GZippedString.cs

using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace WordpressEboobScraper2.Scraper;

public class GZippedString : IXmlSerializable
{
    public string Value { get; set; }

    public System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema GetSchema() { return null; }

    public void ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
    {
        Value = DecompressString(reader.ReadString());
        reader.ReadEndElement();
    }

    public void WriteXml(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteString(CompressString(Value));
    }

    private string CompressString(string text)
    {
        byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
        var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
        using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Compress, true))
            gZipStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        memoryStream.Position = 0;
        var compressedData = new byte[memoryStream.Length];
        memoryStream.Read(compressedData, 0, compressedData.Length);
        var gZipBuffer = new byte[compressedData.Length + 4];
        Buffer.BlockCopy(compressedData, 0, gZipBuffer, 4, compressedData.Length);
        Buffer.BlockCopy(BitConverter.GetBytes(buffer.Length), 0, gZipBuffer, 0, 4);
        return Convert.ToBase64String(gZipBuffer);
    }
		
    private string DecompressString(string compressedText)
    {
        byte[] gZipBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(compressedText);
        using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            int dataLength = BitConverter.ToInt32(gZipBuffer, 0);
            memoryStream.Write(gZipBuffer, 4, gZipBuffer.Length - 4);
            var buffer = new byte[dataLength];
            memoryStream.Position = 0;
            using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
                gZipStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
        }
    }

    public static implicit operator GZippedString(string v) => new GZippedString{Value = v};
    public static implicit operator string (GZippedString v) => v.Value;

}