[QUESTION]: is the output of compressToUint8Array a valid .lz file?

[Luca Viggiani]

Hi, can the output of compressToUint8Array be written to a valid format that can then be uncompressed by any external utility?

For example, I'm sending the output of compressToUint8Array to my web server that writes it to a file like this:

const lz = LZString.compressToUint8Array("something special");
const data = new Blob([lz], { type: "application/lzip"});
// must use multi party form data to prevent troubles with large files
const fd = new FormData();
fd.append(filePath, data);
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("PUT", "somewhere/over/the/rainbow/file.lz", true);
xhr.send(fd);

data is correctly received and saved to a file.lz, however if I try, form linux, to uncompress (e.g. lz file.lz) it tells it's not a valid archive. So I'm wondering if there's a proper extension or way to save in order to be able to decompress without your lib (like for example with .gz files: gzip -d file.gz). To be clear, I'm not expectig it to be a .tar archive, just a compressed single file and be able to uncompress whit from command line for example.

[pieroxy]

This library uses its own compression algorithm and format. It is not compatible with gzip in any way. You can install lz-string from npm (Look at the readme.md) and uncompress your data server side.