Thanks for your comments Max.
> On 9 May 2018, at 03:34, Weijun Wang <weijun.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Nice tool.
>
> However, I am not sure how toFormattedHexString() and toPrintableString() are
> useful, seems only for providing a customizable dump format which is,
> actually, not very customizable.
These provide implementations only to generate the human-readable hexdump
format.
They are not designed to be customizable. Custom formats should be supplied via
Hex.Formatter.
>
> For me, toHexString and fromHexString are of course the most useful methods.
> As for dump, I can only think of
>
> 1. The existing sun.security.HexDumpEncoder format, when I want to dump a lot
> of bytes as a block
> 2. "00:11:22:33:AA:BB:CC" which fits in one line and also easy to read, when
> I want inline debugging output
>
> If the customizable dump method is both powerful and simple enough to create
> 2) above, I'll be happy. Otherwise, I can live with
> toHexString().replaceAll("(..)(?=.)", "$1:”).
How about adding another toHexString method that takes a delimiter character?
>
> Thanks
> Max
>
>> On May 4, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Vincent Ryan <vincent.x.r...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review this proposal for a new API to conveniently generate and
>> display binary data using hex string representation.
>> It supports both bulk and stream operations and it can also generate the
>> well-known hexdump format [1].
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170769
>> API:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8170769/javadoc.05/api/java.base/java/util/Hex.html
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8170769/webrev.05/
>>
>> ____
>> [1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54763/hexdump-1.html
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