This is because of
String outStr = obj.toString("UTF-8");
Send the byte[]
which you can get from your ByteArrayOutputStream
and use it as such in your ByteArrayInputStream
to construct your GZIPInputStream
. Following are the changes which need to be done in your code.
byte[] compressed = compress(string); //In the main method
public static byte[] compress(String str) throws Exception {
...
...
return obj.toByteArray();
}
public static String decompress(byte[] bytes) throws Exception {
...
GZIPInputStream gis = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
...
}