question: public String inflateByteArray2String ( int numberOfBytes , byte [ ] bytes ) throws DataFormatException { if ( numberOfBytes == 0 ) return "" ; if ( numberOfBytes < 0 ) { try { return new String ( bytes , 0 , - numberOfBytes , "UTF-8" ) ; } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder ( ) ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < - numberOfBytes ; i ++ ) buf . append ( ( char ) bytes [ i ] ) ; return buf . toString ( ) ; } } inflater . setInput ( bytes , 0 , numberOfBytes ) ; if ( buffer . length < 10 * bytes . length ) buffer = new byte [ 10 * bytes . length ] ; int resultLength = inflater . inflate ( buffer ) ; String outputString ; try { outputString = new String ( buffer , 0 , resultLength , "UTF-8" ) ; } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder ( ) ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < resultLength ; i ++ ) buf . append ( ( char ) buffer [ i ] ) ; outputString = buf . toString ( ) ; } inflater . reset ( ) ; return outputString ; }
target:  decompresses an array of bytes to a string