converts an int integer array to a byte array.
/*
* Tiled Map Editor, (c) 2004-2006
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Adam Turk <aturk@biggeruniverse.com>
* Bjorn Lindeijer <bjorn@lindeijer.nl>
*/
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Various utility functions.
*/
public class Util
{
/**
* This function converts an <code>int</code> integer array to a
* <code>byte</code> array. Each integer element is broken into 4 bytes and
* stored in the byte array in litte endian byte order.
*
* @param integers an integer array
* @return a byte array containing the values of the int array. The byte
* array is 4x the length of the integer array.
*/
public static byte[] convertIntegersToBytes (int[] integers) {
if (integers != null) {
byte[] outputBytes = new byte[integers.length * 4];
for(int i = 0, k = 0; i < integers.length; i++) {
int integerTemp = integers[i];
for(int j = 0; j < 4; j++, k++) {
outputBytes[k] = (byte)((integerTemp >> (8 * j)) & 0xFF);
}
}
return outputBytes;
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
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