Re: base64binary
lord.zoltar@gmail.com wrote:
I have a class that receives some data encoded as a base64binary
string from a SOAP request, and stores it in a byte array. I need to
write it to a binary file on disc. I thought that just writing the
byte array with a FileOutputStream would do this, but this seems to
result in writing the base64 encoding which was received.
How do I convert this array into the binary data?
Decode it before writing.
Base64 suppurt are in the Java Mail API.
Code snippets:
public static byte[] b64encode(byte[] b) throws Exception {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
OutputStream b64os = MimeUtility.encode(baos, "base64");
b64os.write(b);
b64os.close();
return baos.toByteArray();
}
public static byte[] b64decode(byte[] b) throws Exception {
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
InputStream b64is = MimeUtility.decode(bais, "Base64");
byte[] tmp = new byte[b.length];
int n = b64is.read(tmp);
byte[] res = new byte[n];
System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, res, 0, n);
return res;
}
Arne
PS: Don't your web service toolkit decode automatically ??
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