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Feature #10900
closedGzipReader does not define `#external_encoding`
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Description
Hello,
I want to store/load some yaml and other text data in gz for space efficiency. I thought it's most efficient to read/write directly to/from a gzip stream. But seems like the GzipReader io object does not support everything that a regular file io object does. I spotted the #external_encoding method. So for example to load YAML directly from gzip I use the following method:
def load_yaml_from_gz(gz)
loaded = nil
Zlib::GzipReader.open(gz) do |f|
class << f
def external_encoding
Encoding::UTF_8
end
end
loaded = YAML.load(f, gz)
end
return loaded
end
I need the monkey-patching because otherwise the YAML.load method fails for no #external_encoding method defined.
To avoid monkey patching just to read some text from a gzip archive I propose that GzipReader implements #external_encoding the same way as File does.
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