Introduction
The ByteBuffer
class was introduced in java 1.4 to ease working on binary data. It's especially suited to use with primitive type data. It allows the creation, but also subsequent manipulation of a byte[]
s on a higher abstraction level
Syntax
- byte[] arr = new byte[1000];
- ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(arr);
- ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
- ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(1024);
- byte b = buffer.get();
- byte b = buffer.get(10);
- short s = buffer.getShort(10);
- buffer.put((byte) 120);
- buffer.putChar('a');