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Pepijn Schmitz commented on CODEC-59:
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Right, that's exactly what I meant and wrote. The codec could encode bytes TO
Strings (with a String encode(byte[]) method) and decode bytes FROM Strings
(with a byte[] decode(String) method). These Strings would only contain
characters from the base 64 character set (which is a subset of ASCII).
> Add methods to Base64 which work with String instead of byte[]
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> Key: CODEC-59
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-59
> Project: Commons Codec
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Pepijn Schmitz
> Priority: Minor
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> It would be great if the Base64 class had String encode(byte[]) and byte[]
> decode(String) methods. The RFC is stated in terms of "characters" for the
> encoding, so there should be no problem with unwarranted assumptions with
> this. Currently everyone is having to convert to and from Strings themselves.
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