Simple Toolkit For Translation Between Byte Array And Hex String

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package flib.util;

import java.util.Locale;

/**
 * BD : Simple Kit for translation between byte array and hex string.
 * @author John-Lee
 */
public class HexByteKit {
    private static byte charToByte(char c){
        return (byte) "0123456789ABCDEF".indexOf(c);
    }

    /**
     * BD : Used to transfer hex string into byte array. two hex string combines one byte. So that means the length of hex string
     *      should be even. Or the null will be returned.
     * @param hexStr
     * @return
     */
    public static byte[] hex2byte(String hexStr) {
        if(hexStr == null || hexStr.isEmpty() || (hexStr.length()%2>1)) {
            return null;
        }
        String hexStrUp = hexStr.toUpperCase();
        int length = hexStrUp.length()/2;
        char[] hexChars = hexStrUp.toCharArray();
        byte[] resultByte = new byte[length];
        for(int i=0;i<length;i++) {
            int pos = i*2;
            resultByte[i] = (byte) (charToByte(hexChars[pos]) << 4 | charToByte(hexChars[pos+1]));            
        }
        return resultByte;
    }

    /**
     * BD : Used to transfer byte array into hex string.
     * @param b
     * @return
     */
    public static String byte2hex(byte[] b){
        StringBuffer hexStr= new StringBuffer("");
        String stmp = "";
        for(int i=0;i<b.length;i++) {
            stmp = (java.lang.Integer.toHexString(b[i] & 0xFF));
            if(stmp.length() == 1) {
                hexStr.append("0"+stmp);
            } else {
                hexStr.append(stmp);
            }            
        }
        return hexStr.toString().toUpperCase();
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        byte[] b = {(byte)0xaa,(byte)0x1f,(byte)0x2b,(byte)0x14};
        String hexStr = byte2hex(b);
        System.out.println("Hex string :"+hexStr);
        byte[] tmp = hex2byte(hexStr);
        boolean tres = true;
        if(b.length == tmp.length) {
            for(int i=0;i<tmp.length;i++) {
               if(b[i] != tmp[i]) {
                   tres = false;
                   break;
               }
            }
        }else {
            tres = false;
        }
        if(tres) {
            System.out.println("Translation success");
        } else {
            System.err.println("Translation failed");
        }
    }
}

Tags:
• FLib
• java
• toolkit