// Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Brian Wellington (bwelling@xbill.org) package org.xbill.DNS.utils; import java.io.*; /** * Routines for converting between Strings of hex-encoded data and arrays of * binary data. This is not actually used by DNS. * * @author Brian Wellington */ public class base16 { private static final String Base16 = "0123456789ABCDEF"; private base16() {} /** * Convert binary data to a hex-encoded String * @param b An array containing binary data * @return A String containing the encoded data */ public static String toString(byte [] b) { ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++) { short value = (short) (b[i] & 0xFF); byte high = (byte) (value >> 4); byte low = (byte) (value & 0xF); os.write(Base16.charAt(high)); os.write(Base16.charAt(low)); } return new String(os.toByteArray()); } /** * Convert a hex-encoded String to binary data * @param str A String containing the encoded data * @return An array containing the binary data, or null if the string is invalid */ public static byte [] fromString(String str) { ByteArrayOutputStream bs = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); byte [] raw = str.getBytes(); for (int i = 0; i < raw.length; i++) { if (!Character.isWhitespace((char)raw[i])) bs.write(raw[i]); } byte [] in = bs.toByteArray(); if (in.length % 2 != 0) { return null; } bs.reset(); DataOutputStream ds = new DataOutputStream(bs); for (int i = 0; i < in.length; i += 2) { byte high = (byte) Base16.indexOf(Character.toUpperCase((char)in[i])); byte low = (byte) Base16.indexOf(Character.toUpperCase((char)in[i+1])); try { ds.writeByte((high << 4) + low); } catch (IOException e) { } } return bs.toByteArray(); } }