io.jsonwebtoken.CompressionCodec Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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package io.jsonwebtoken;
/**
* Compresses and decompresses byte arrays according to a compression algorithm.
*
* @see io.jsonwebtoken.impl.compression.DeflateCompressionCodec
* @see io.jsonwebtoken.impl.compression.GzipCompressionCodec
* @since 0.6.0
*/
public interface CompressionCodec {
/**
* The algorithm name to use as the JWT's {@code calg} header value.
*
* @return the algorithm name to use as the JWT's {@code calg} header value.
*/
String getAlgorithmName();
/**
* Compresses the specified byte array according to the compression {@link #getAlgorithmName() algorithm}.
*
* @param payload bytes to compress
* @return compressed bytes
* @throws CompressionException if the specified byte array cannot be compressed according to the compression
* {@link #getAlgorithmName() algorithm}.
*/
byte[] compress(byte[] payload) throws CompressionException;
/**
* Decompresses the specified compressed byte array according to the compression
* {@link #getAlgorithmName() algorithm}. The specified byte array must already be in compressed form
* according to the {@link #getAlgorithmName() algorithm}.
*
* @param compressed compressed bytes
* @return decompressed bytes
* @throws CompressionException if the specified byte array cannot be decompressed according to the compression
* {@link #getAlgorithmName() algorithm}.
*/
byte[] decompress(byte[] compressed) throws CompressionException;
}