Diagrams.net, previously and still more widely known as draw.io, is a popular tool for drawing diagrams of various kinds. It stores diagrams in an XML-based format that uses the file ending .drawio. The file content has the structure:
<mxfile {...}>
<diagram {...}>
{the-actual-diagram-content}
</diagram>
</mxfile>`
According to the documentation page Extracting the XML from mxfiles, the string {the-actual-diagram-content} contains the actual diagram data in compressed format, "compressed with the standard deflate process". I'd like to decompress this data in my node.js app to parse and modify it.
I have found an older, similar question on StackOverflow, which wants the same, but uses the libraries "atob", and later "pako". I'd like to achieve the same with the more standard "zlib" node.js module, which - if this is really "the standard deflate process" - should be possible.
However, all my attempts to "inflate" the compressed string fail. I have mostly tried variations of the following code, with different encodings ('base64', 'utf8') and methods ('inflateSync', 'unzipSync', 'gunzipSync'):
zlib.inflateSync(Buffer.from(string, 'base64')).toString();
All attempts fail with the error "Error: incorrect header check". I read this as "dude, seriously, you're using the wrong unzip algorithm for this". However, I cannot figure out what the right algorithm or settings are.
The sample string I'd like to decode is the following. Using the jgraph inflate/deflate tool, this uncompresses perfectly fine. However, the settings done there, "URL Encode", "Deflate", "Base64" sound to me exactly like what I am trying.
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
What am I doing wrong?
