Bzip2Archive

Bzip2Archive constructor (1 of 3)

Initializes a new instance of the Bzip2Archive class prepared for compressing.

public Bzip2Archive()

The following example shows how to compress a file.

using (Bzip2Archive archive = new Bzip2Archive()) 
{
    archive.SetSource("data.bin");
    archive.Save("archive.bz2");
}

Initializes a new instance of the Bzip2Archive class prepared for decompressing.

public Bzip2Archive(Stream sourceStream)

Parameter	Type	Description
sourceStream	Stream	The source of the archive.

This constructor does not decompress. See Open method for decompressing.

Open an archive from a stream and extract it to a MemoryStream

var ms = new MemoryStream();
using (Bzip2Archive archive = new Bzip2Archive(File.OpenRead("archive.bz2")))
  archive.Open().CopyTo(ms);

Initializes a new instance of the Bzip2Archive class prepared for decompressing.

public Bzip2Archive(string path)

Parameter	Type	Description
path	String	The path to the archive file.

exception	condition
ArgumentNullException	path is null.
SecurityException	The caller does not have the required permission to access.
ArgumentException	The path is empty, contains only white spaces, or contains invalid characters.
UnauthorizedAccessException	Access to file path is denied.
PathTooLongException	The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length. For example, on Windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters, and file names must be less than 260 characters.
NotSupportedException	File at path contains a colon (:) in the middle of the string.
FileNotFoundException	The file is not found.
DirectoryNotFoundException	The specified path is invalid, such as being on an unmapped drive.
IOException	The file is already open.

This constructor does not decompress. See Open method for decompressing.

Open an archive from file by path and extract it to a MemoryStream

var ms = new MemoryStream();
using (Bzip2Archive archive = new Bzip2Archive("archive.bz2"))
  archive.Open().CopyTo(ms);