Question

I would like to decompress in C# some DeflateCoded data (PDF extracted).
Unfortunately I got every time the exception “Found invalid data while decoding.”.
But the data are valid.

private void Decompress()
{
    FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"S:\Temp\myFile.bin", FileMode.Open);

    //First two bytes are irrelevant
    fs.ReadByte();
    fs.ReadByte();

    DeflateStream d_Stream = new DeflateStream(fs, CompressionMode.Decompress);

    StreamToFile(d_Stream, @"S:\Temp\myFile1.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

    d_Stream.Close();
    fs.Close();
}

private static void StreamToFile(Stream inputStream, string outputFile, FileMode fileMode)
{
    if (inputStream == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("inputStream");

    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(outputFile))
        throw new ArgumentException("Argument null or empty.", "outputFile");

    using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(outputFile, fileMode, FileAccess.Write))
    {
        int cnt = 0;
        const int LEN = 4096;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[LEN];

        while ((cnt = inputStream.Read(buffer, 0, LEN)) != 0)
            outputStream.Write(buffer, 0, cnt);
    }
}

Does anyone has some ideas?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I added this for test data:-

private static void Compress()
{
  FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\Temp\myFile.bin", FileMode.Create);

  DeflateStream d_Stream = new DeflateStream(fs, CompressionMode.Compress);
  for (byte n = 0; n < 255; n++)
    d_Stream.WriteByte(n);
  d_Stream.Close();
  fs.Close();
}

Modified Decompress like this:-

private static void Decompress()
{
  FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\Temp\myFile.bin", FileMode.Open);

  //First two bytes are irrelevant
  //      fs.ReadByte();
  //      fs.ReadByte();

  DeflateStream d_Stream = new DeflateStream(fs, CompressionMode.Decompress);

  StreamToFile(d_Stream, @"C:\Temp\myFile1.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

  d_Stream.Close();
  fs.Close();
}

Ran it like this:-

static void Main(string[] args)
{
  Compress();
  Decompress();
}

And got no errors.

I conclude that either the first two bytes are relevant (Obviously they are with my particular test data.) or
that your data has a problem.

Can we have some of your test data to play with?

(Obviously don’t if it’s sensitive)