Provides encoding of raw bytes to base64-encoded characters, and decoding of
base64 characters to raw bytes. date: 06 August 1998 modified: 14 February
2000 modified: 22 September 2000
returns an array of base64-encoded characters to represent the passed
data array.
Parameters:
data - the array of bytes to encode
Returns:
base64-coded character array.
decode
public static byte[] decode(char[] data)
Decodes a BASE-64 encoded stream to recover the original data. White
space before and after will be trimmed away, but no other manipulation of
the input will be performed.
As of version 1.2 this method will properly handle input containing junk
characters (newlines and the like) rather than throwing an error. It does
this by pre-parsing the input and generating from that a count of VALID
input characters.