com.generationjava.lang
Class ByteArray

java.lang.Object
  com.generationjava.lang.ByteArray

public class ByteArray

extends Object

Provides useful methods for manipulating ByteArrays. Todo: Integrate faster byte handling supplied by sclayman.

Author:

bayard@generationjava.com

Constructor Summary

ByteArray(byte[] b)
Construct an object to contain an array of bytes.

Method Summary

static String	byteArrayToString(byte[] b) converts a byte array into a String in hexidecimal form.
static String	byteToString(byte b) given a byte, return a String like: "09" or "AA" etc..
static byte[]	longArrayToByteArray(long[] lns) Flattern an array of longs into an array of byte.
static byte	stringToByte(String s) given a String like: "09" or "AA" etc, return the relevant byte.
static byte[]	stringToByteArray(String bstr) converts a hexidecimal form of String to a byte array.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ByteArray

public ByteArray(byte[] b)

Construct an object to contain an array of bytes.

Parameters:

b - byte[] of values to contain

Method Detail

byteArrayToString

public static String byteArrayToString(byte[] b)

converts a byte array into a String in hexidecimal form.

Parameters:

b - byte[] to turn to a String

Returns:

String of bytes in hexadecimal format

byteToString

public static String byteToString(byte b)

given a byte, return a String like: "09" or "AA" etc..

Parameters:

b - byte to turn to a String

Returns:

String of byte in hexadecimal format

stringToByte

public static byte stringToByte(String s)

given a String like: "09" or "AA" etc, return the relevant byte.

Parameters:

s - String of byte in hexadecimal format

Returns:

byte value of hexadecimal-string

stringToByteArray

public static byte[] stringToByteArray(String bstr)

converts a hexidecimal form of String to a byte array.

Parameters:

bstr - String of bytes in hexadecimal format

Returns:

byte[] values of hexadecimal-string

longArrayToByteArray

public static byte[] longArrayToByteArray(long[] lns)

Flattern an array of longs into an array of byte. The primitive type, 'long' is 8 times the size of a byte.

Parameters:

lns - Array of longs to be converted to bytes.

Returns:

byte value of hexadecimal-string