Compress data with ABAP (ZIP, GZIP)

    DATA lv_string TYPE string.
    DATA lv_xstring TYPE xstring.


    " gzip 
    cl_abap_gzip=>compress_text(
      EXPORTING text_in  = lv_string
      IMPORTING gzip_out = lv_xstring
    ).


    " unzip 
    cl_abap_gzip=>decompress_text(
      EXPORTING gzip_in  = lv_xstring
      IMPORTING text_out = lv_string
    ).


See also methods COMPRESS_BINARY and DECOMPRESS_BINARY of cl_abap_gzip.