Bytebuffer

[chella adisesh]

How do we convert a bytebuffer to an string.
Thanks.

[Jim Yingst]

Something like this:

String str = Charset.forName("UTF-8").decode(buffer).toString();

Or

Charset cs = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
CharsetDecoder decoder = cs.newDecoder();
...
String str = decoder.decode(buffer).toString();

The latter is a little more efficient if you reuse the decoder. Of course, replace UTF-8 with whatever encoding is appropriate for your application.

[chella adisesh]

Jim,
Thank you very much. I have run into a problem in my program which i did not see it coming. Actually the program wants to convert a string into a byte buffer.
Any pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks.