com.db4o.config.encoding

Interface StringEncoding

All Known Implementing Classes:

BuiltInStringEncoding, LatinStringEncoding, UnicodeStringEncoding, UTF8StringEncoding

public interface StringEncoding

encodes a String to a byte array and decodes a String from a part of a byte array

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	decode(byte[] bytes, int start, int length) called when a byte array is to be decoded to a string.
byte[]	encode(java.lang.String str) called when a string is to be encoded to a byte array.

Method Detail

encode

byte[] encode(java.lang.String str)

called when a string is to be encoded to a byte array.

Parameters:

str - the string to encode

Returns:

the encoded byte array

decode

java.lang.String decode(byte[] bytes,
                      int start,
                      int length)

called when a byte array is to be decoded to a string.

Parameters:

bytes - the byte array

start - the start offset in the byte array

length - the length of the encoded string in the byte array

Returns:

the string