How to compress a .net object instance using gzip

Question

I am wanting to compress results from QUERYS of the database before adding them to the cache.

I want to be able to compress any reference type.

I have a working

Answer 1

Here is how this can be done.

GzipStream: Provides methods and properties used to compress and decompress streams.

Serialize object to Memory stream using binaryformatter and hook that memorystream to Gzipstream.

Code to compress is as follows:

            public static byte[] ObjectToCompressedByteArray(object obj)
                    {
                        try
                        {
                            using (var memoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
                            {
                                using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
                                {
                                    var binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
                                    binaryFormatter.Serialize(gZipStream, obj);
                                }
                                return memoryStream.ToArray();
                            }
                        }
                        catch (Exception ex)
                        {
                            LoggerWrapper.CMLogger.LogMessage(
                                $"EXCEPTION: BSExportImportHelper.ObjectToByteArray - : {ex.Message}", LoggerWrapper.CMLogger.CMLogLevel.Error);
                            throw;
                        }

                    }