src/org/jsecurity/codec/Hex.java

/*
 * Copyright 2005-2008 Les Hazlewood and original authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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package org.jsecurity.codec;

/**
 * Hex encoder and decoder.
 *
 * <p>This class was borrowed from Apache Commons Codec SVN repository (rev. 560660 ) with modifications
 * to enable Hex conversion without a full dependency on Commons Codec.  We didn't want to reinvent the wheel of 
 * great work they've done, but also didn't want to force every JSecurity user to depend on the commons-codec.jar</p>
 *
 * <p>As per the Apache 2.0 license, the original copyright notice and all author and copyright information have
 * remained in tact.</p>
 *
 * @since 1.1
 * @author Apache Software Foundation
 * @author Les Hazlewood
 */
public class Hex {

    /**
     * Used to build output as Hex
     */
    private static final char[] DIGITS = {
        '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7',
           '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'
    };

    public static String encodeToString( byte[] bytes ) {
        char[] encodedChars = encode( bytes );
        return new String( encodedChars );
    }

    /**
     * Converts an array of bytes into an array of characters representing the hexidecimal values of each byte in order.
     * The returned array will be double the length of the passed array, as it takes two characters to represent any
     * given byte.
     *
     * @param data byte[] to convert to Hex characters
     * @return A char[] containing hexidecimal characters
     */
    public static char[] encode(byte[] data) {

        int l = data.length;

           char[] out = new char[l << 1];

           // two characters form the hex value.
           for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < l; i++) {
               out[j++] = DIGITS[(0xF0 & data[i]) >>> 4 ];
               out[j++] = DIGITS[ 0x0F & data[i] ];
           }

           return out;
    }

    /**
     * Converts an array of character bytes representing hexidecimal values into an
     * array of bytes of those same values. The returned array will be half the
     * length of the passed array, as it takes two characters to represent any
     * given byte. An exception is thrown if the passed char array has an odd
     * number of elements.
     *
     * @param array An array of character bytes containing hexidecimal digits
     * @return A byte array containing binary data decoded from
     *         the supplied byte array (representing characters).
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException Thrown if an odd number of characters is supplied
     *                   to this function
     * @see #decode(char[])
     */
	public static byte[] decode(byte[] array) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        String s = CodecSupport.toString(array);
        return decode(s);
	}

    public static byte[] decode( String hex ) {
        return decode( hex.toCharArray() );
    }

    /**
     * Converts an array of characters representing hexidecimal values into an
     * array of bytes of those same values. The returned array will be half the
     * length of the passed array, as it takes two characters to represent any
     * given byte. An exception is thrown if the passed char array has an odd
     * number of elements.
     *
     * @param data An array of characters containing hexidecimal digits
     * @return A byte array containing binary data decoded from
     *         the supplied char array.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if an odd number or illegal of characters
     *         is supplied
     */
    public static byte[] decode(char[] data) throws IllegalArgumentException {

        int len = data.length;

        if ((len & 0x01) != 0) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Odd number of characters.");
        }

        byte[] out = new byte[len >> 1];

        // two characters form the hex value.
        for (int i = 0, j = 0; j < len; i++) {
            int f = toDigit(data[j], j) << 4;
            j++;
            f = f | toDigit(data[j], j);
            j++;
            out[i] = (byte) (f & 0xFF);
        }

        return out;
    }

    /**
     * Converts a hexadecimal character to an integer.
     *
     * @param ch A character to convert to an integer digit
     * @param index The index of the character in the source
     * @return An integer
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if ch is an illegal hex character
     */
    protected static int toDigit(char ch, int index) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        int digit = Character.digit(ch, 16);
        if (digit == -1) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal hexadecimal charcter " + ch + " at index " + index);
        }
        return digit;
    }


}