Can you please add support to decompress to ZipOutputStream ?

[kiwi1969]

It would be great if we had option to output a compressed zip file instead of a huge SMF file.
Then people that process the data using Java can read using ZipInputStream

[alexgubanow]

hi, yes it can be done and does make sense as the output files sometimes are huge. Feel free to suggest a change :) i see it can be done in TerseDecompresser

[kiwi1969]

I have submitted a pull request to output via GZIPOutputStream is the filename is specified with ".gz"
This results in a much smaller file than the Terse was (about 50% size), which is also usable by programs that use GZIPInputStream to read the file.

[kiwi1969]

Created code that uses GZIPOutputStream
I have been told to create a branch from this issue - how is this done ?

[alexgubanow]

not sure if you have such a button. I believe it will be enough if name of branch starts with a issue number, like :
15-can-you-please-add-support-to-decompress-to-zipoutputstream
In same time, please base your changes on "release-5.0.1" branch, because that already has fixes to pom.xml and it is a branch where we collect all fixes, before merging to master.

[kiwi1969]

I rebased my code by merging into it the changes made in 5.0.1.
Note that I use maven shade in my pom.xml, where 5.0.1 wasn't.
I also added some symbolics and default to Java 17.
I dunno which pom.xml you prefer (mine vs 5.0.1)

[alexgubanow]

sorry for a delay, added comments to PR, as well changed the target branch to be release branch.