Add a one-shot method?

[ricea]

Maybe we should have something like

static Promise<Uint8Array> compress(DOMString format, BufferSource input);

in CompressionStream, and a similar API for DecompressionStream, to make one-shot compression and decompression easier to do.

[wandyezj]

It would be convenient to be able to do this in one shot.

That said, the current implementation is flexible.

This is my current usage to compress data for sharing in a URL hash for open checklist

/**
* converts text to gzip compressed hexText
* @param {string} text - a string
* @returns {Promise<string>} gzip compressed hexText
*/
async function compress(text) {
   // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CompressionStream

   const readStream = new Response(text);
   const compressedReadableStream = readStream.body.pipeThrough(new CompressionStream("gzip"));
   const response = new Response(compressedReadableStream);

   const buffer = await response.arrayBuffer();
   const compressedHexText = convertBufferToHex(buffer);
   return compressedHexText;
}

[ricea]

@wandyezj Thank you for your use case.

Using a Response to convert a stream to an array buffer is convenient, but inefficient. See https://wicg.github.io/compression/#example-deflate-compress for a faster way to do it.

[gtm-nayan]

I'm using the Compression API to encode data for URL fragments, a one-shot method would be really nice to have compared to piping the text through multiple streams to get there.