[CODEC] char[] decoding base64 variant

[Bernd Eckenfels <ec...@zusammenkunft.net>]

Hello,

with great delight I have seen that Java8 Base64 (JEP135) decoder
offers a method for decoding with String argument, but it does not
funtion as a Writer().

There is a quite common case that you want to decode base64 encoded
data in char[] chunks. With a OutputStream implementation one would
need to convert them to byte[] and with a decode(String) method one
would have to produce strings. It would be good if I could directly
have a "Writer Base64DecodeWriter(OutputStream)".

What do you think, is that a good addition to commons codec?

Bernd

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Re: [CODEC] char[] decoding base64 variant

[Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>]

Well, what we have now is
org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64OutputStream and Base64InputStream.

Feel free to create a patch with unit tests and attach it to a new Jira
ticket.

We'll be better able to tell what it is you are trying to do...

Gary


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <ec...@zusammenkunft.net>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> with great delight I have seen that Java8 Base64 (JEP135) decoder
> offers a method for decoding with String argument, but it does not
> funtion as a Writer().
>
> There is a quite common case that you want to decode base64 encoded
> data in char[] chunks. With a OutputStream implementation one would
> need to convert them to byte[] and with a decode(String) method one
> would have to produce strings. It would be good if I could directly
> have a "Writer Base64DecodeWriter(OutputStream)".
>
> What do you think, is that a good addition to commons codec?
>
> Bernd
>
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