Kbase P150654: How to compress/decompress data in OpenEdge?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
06/08/2009 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to compress/decompress data in OpenEdge?
GOAL:
How to compress/decompress data from a file?
GOAL:
How to compress/decompress data in memory?
FACT(s) (Environment):
All Supported Operating Systems
OpenEdge 10.x
OpenEdge Category: HLC
OpenEdge Category: Language (4GL/ABL)
FIX:
There is no native function in ABL to compress/decompress data streams.
The solution consists in calling external libraries in order to implement this functionality within your ABL code.
Using zlib library via HLC interface for instance a good candidate for this operation.