[1102] in java-interest
Network Byte Stream to Integers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sid Conklin)
Fri Aug 18 19:25:25 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 13:30:00 -0700
From: "Sid Conklin" <sid.conklin@nora.stanford.edu>
To: "java-interest@java.sun.com" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
I can't find an easy way to take a byte stream and parse it into Integers. I
have a middle service this is return me a packed C structure:
unsigned short(1) ServiceCmdPort
unsigned short(1) ServiceCmdPort
unsigned long(2) ServicePID
...
1: short = 2 bytes
2: long = 4 bytes
I'm using an inputStream for the read(inputStreamByte). So far the only way
I've found to re-generate the structure into a class with java is to do the
following
Integer ServiceCmdPort = new Integer((256* inputStreamByte[1]) +
inputStreamByte[2] );
Is there a better way?
Does anybody see the need for a Byte class that mimicks the String class?
I've come across numerious times when I want a method to return a byte array
but I can't figure out how to do this. If I had a Byte class I could return
that, this would also allow me to extract an integer out of a byte array,
encapsulating the above math.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Sid Conklin
Stanford University
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