On 10/10/12 6:51 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
Several questions:
1. In encode0(byte[] src, byte[] dst)
281 if (linepos == linemax && (atom != 0 || sp < sl)) {
Maybe atom != 0 is not necessary?
The logic here is that if we reached the last atom (atom == 0), but if there
is still byte(s) in src (sp < sl), we will need to output the last
special unit,
which has one or two padding charactere '=', in this case, we still need to
output the line separator(s).
2. Is it necessary to explicitly mention in the spec that there is no
CrLf at the end of a MIME encoded string?
I'm struggling with which is the appropriate/desired behavior, output
the crlf for the last line
or not. Apache's common coder appears to append the crlf for the last
line, but our sun.misc
version does not (but sun.misc.BASE64 actually appends the line
separator if the last line
happens to have 76 characters, I would assume this is a bug though). The
current implement
tries to match the sun.misc. I'm happy to go either way.
But, as you suggested, it might be worth explicitly describing whatever
behavior we choose.
3. The test confirms decoding can correctly reverse the encoding but
it says nothing about the correctness of the encoding. Maybe we can
just use "10. Test Vectors" of RFC 4648?
I do have a version of TestBase64 actually compares encoded results of
j.u.Base64,
sun.misc.BASE64Encoder and org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64. Maybe
I should
at least plug in the code for comparing with sun.misc.Base64Encoder.
Thanks!
-Sherman
On 10/11/2012 01:54 AM, Xueming Shen wrote:
A standard/public API for Base64 encoding and decoding has been long
overdue. JDK8 has a JEP [1] for this particular request.
Here is the draft proposal to add a public Base64 utility class for
JDK8.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/4235519/webrev
This class basically provides 4 variants of Base64 encoding scheme,
(1) the default RFC 4648, which uses standard mapping, no line breaks,
(2) the URL-safe RFE 4648, no line breaks, use "-" and "_" to replace
"+" and
"/" for the mapping
(3) the default MIME style, as in RFC 2045 (and its earlier versions),
which uses
"standard" base64 mapping, a 76 characters per line limit and uses
crlf pair
\r\n for line break.
(4) an extend-able MIME base64, with the char-per-line and the line
separator(s)
specified by developer.
The encoder/decoder now provides encoding and decoding for byte[],
String,
ByteBuffer and a pair of "EncoderInputStream" and
"DecoderOutputStrream",
which we believe/hope should satisfy most of the common use cases.
Additional
method(s) can be added if strongly desired.
We tried couple slightly different styles of design for such this
"simple" utility
class [2]. We kinda concluded that the version proposed probably
provides
the best balance among readability, usability and extensibility.
Please help review and comment on the API and implementation.
Thanks!
-Sherman
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/135
[2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/base64/
