Re: Generating a unique string without normal character sets

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:09:54 -0400
Message-ID:
<49c049da$0$90266$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Jon Gomez wrote:

It is probably a bad idea to use the sun.* packages, since they may be
unavailable on other JDK platforms or may change (or who knows, could
vanish) between JDK versions, at least according to a report by Sun in
1996. Their use is not advised unless you want to take that risk [2].


And why should anyone want to do that when there is a supported
way !?!?

Only drawback is that ones needs a Java EE environment or
getting JavaMail RI.

Code below.

Arne

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     public static String b64encode(byte[] b) throws MessagingException,
IOException {
         ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         OutputStream b64os = MimeUtility.encode(baos, "base64");
         b64os.write(b);
         b64os.close();
         return new String(baos.toByteArray());
      }
      public static byte[] b64decode(String s) throws
MessagingException, IOException {
         ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(s.getBytes());
         InputStream b64is = MimeUtility.decode(bais, "Base64");
         byte[] tmp = new byte[s.length()];
         int n = b64is.read(tmp);
         byte[] res = new byte[n];
         System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, res, 0, n);
         return res;
      }

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