Subclass of Zlib::Error
When zlib returns a Z_STREAM_ERROR, usually if the stream state was inconsistent.
Zlib::ZStream is the abstract class for the stream which handles the compressed data. The operations are defined in the subclasses: Zlib::Deflate for compression, and Zlib::Inflate for decompression.
An instance of Zlib::ZStream has one stream (struct zstream in the source) and two variable-length buffers which associated to the input (next_in) of the stream and the output (next_out) of the stream. In this document, “input buffer” means the buffer for input, and “output buffer” means the buffer for output.
Data input into an instance of Zlib::ZStream are temporally stored into the end of input buffer, and then data in input buffer are processed from the beginning of the buffer until no more output from the stream is produced (i.e. until avail_out > 0 after processing). During processing, output buffer is allocated and expanded automatically to hold all output data.
Some particular instance methods consume the data in output buffer and return them as a String.
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"output data" "input data"
If an error occurs during processing input buffer, an exception which is a subclass of Zlib::Error is raised. At that time, both input and output buffer keep their conditions at the time when the error occurs.
Method Catalogue Many of the methods in this class are fairly low-level and unlikely to be of interest to users. In fact, users are unlikely to use this class directly; rather they will be interested in Zlib::Inflate and Zlib::Deflate.
The higher level methods are listed below.
HTTPGenericRequest is the parent of the HTTPRequest class. Do not use this directly; use a subclass of HTTPRequest.
Mixes in the HTTPHeader module to provide easier access to HTTP headers.
Hash with completion search feature. See OptionParser::Completion.
Raises when a switch with mandatory argument has no argument.
Internal use. An implementation of prime table by trial division method.
Defines an Element Attribute; IE, a attribute=value pair, as in: <element attribute=“value”/>. Attributes can be in their own namespaces. General users of REXML will not interact with the Attribute class much.
A class that defines the set of Attributes of an Element and provides operations for accessing elements in that set.
Rinda error base class
Since RSS is based on XML, it must have opening and closing tags that match. If they don’t, a MissingTagError will be raised.
Installs a gem along with all its dependencies from local and remote gems.
Raised when trying to activate a gem, and that gem does not exist on the system. Instead of rescuing from this class, make sure to rescue from the superclass Gem::LoadError to catch all types of load errors.
Raised when trying to activate a gem, and the gem exists on the system, but not the requested version. Instead of rescuing from this class, make sure to rescue from the superclass Gem::LoadError to catch all types of load errors.