node-lz4 | LZ4 fast compression algorithm for NodeJS | Compression library
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LZ4 fast compression algorithm for NodeJS
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- Format a value into an object .
- Writable state of a Duplex stream .
- Stream state of a readable stream .
- Add an event listener .
- Removes buffer from the buffer .
- Style the string
- Index of a single - index of a value .
- Destroys the entity and destroys it .
- drain the next chunk or write to the stream .
- Read a chunk .
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I'm porting a Firefox Add-on SDK extension to WebExtensions. Previously I could access the browser's search engines, but now I can't, so a helpful user suggested I try reading the search.json.mozlz4 file, which has every installed engine. However, this file is json with LZ4 compression, and it's in Mozilla's own LZ4 format, with a custom magic number, 'mozLz40\0'.
Before, one could use this to read a text file that uses LZ4 compression, including a mozlz4 file:
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Answered 2017-Oct-08 at 15:20After much trial and error, I was finally able to read and decode the search.json.mozlz4 file in a WebExtension. You can use the node-lz4 library, though you'll only need one function - uncompress
(aliased as decodeBlock
for external access) - so I renamed it to decodeLz4Block
and included it here with slight changes:
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