[java] GZIPInputStream reading line by line

I have a file in .gz format. The java class for reading this file is GZIPInputStream. However, this class doesn't extend the BufferedReader class of java. As a result, I am not able to read the file line by line. I need something like this

reader  = new MyGZInputStream( some constructor of GZInputStream) 
reader.readLine()...

I though of creating my class which extends the Reader or BufferedReader class of java and use GZIPInputStream as one of its variable.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;

public class MyGZFilReader extends Reader {

    private GZIPInputStream gzipInputStream = null;
    char[] buf = new char[1024];

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        gzipInputStream.close();
    }

    public MyGZFilReader(String filename)
               throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        gzipInputStream = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(filename));
    }

    @Override
    public int read(char[] cbuf, int off, int len) throws IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return gzipInputStream.read((byte[])buf, off, len);
    }

}

But, this doesn't work when I use

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
    new MyGZFilReader("F:/gawiki-20090614-stub-meta-history.xml.gz"));
System.out.println(in.readLine());

Can someone advice how to proceed ..

This question is related to java file-io filereader gzipinputstream

The answer is


BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
        new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream("F:/gawiki-20090614-stub-meta-history.xml.gz"))));

String content;

while ((content = in.readLine()) != null)

   System.out.println(content);

GZIPInputStream gzip = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream("F:/gawiki-20090614-stub-meta-history.xml.gz"));
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(gzip));
br.readLine();


here is with one line

try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(
           new GZIPInputStream(
              new FileInputStream(
                 "F:/gawiki-20090614-stub-meta-history.xml.gz"))))) 
     {br.readLine();}

You can use the following method in a util class, and use it whenever necessary...

public static List<String> readLinesFromGZ(String filePath) {
    List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
    File file = new File(filePath);

    try (GZIPInputStream gzip = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(gzip));) {
        String line = null;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            lines.add(line);
        }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }
    return lines;
}