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/**
 * format validation
 *
 * This class encodes/decodes hexadecimal data
 * 
 * @xerces.internal  
 * 
 * @author Jeffrey Rodriguez
 * @version $Id: HexBin.java 446747 2006-09-15 21:46:20Z mrglavas $
 */
public final class  HexBin {
    static private final int  BASELENGTH   = 128;
    static private final int  LOOKUPLENGTH = 16;
    static final private byte [] hexNumberTable    = new byte[BASELENGTH];
    static final private char [] lookUpHexAlphabet = new char[LOOKUPLENGTH];


    static {
        for (int i = 0; i < BASELENGTH; i++ ) {
            hexNumberTable[i] = -1;
        }
        for ( int i = '9'; i >= '0'; i--) {
            hexNumberTable[i] = (byte) (i-'0');
        }
        for ( int i = 'F'; i>= 'A'; i--) {
            hexNumberTable[i] = (byte) ( i-'A' + 10 );
        }
        for ( int i = 'f'; i>= 'a'; i--) {
           hexNumberTable[i] = (byte) ( i-'a' + 10 );
        }

        for(int i = 0; i<10; i++ ) {
            lookUpHexAlphabet[i] = (char)('0'+i);
        }
        for(int i = 10; i<=15; i++ ) {
            lookUpHexAlphabet[i] = (char)('A'+i -10);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Encode a byte array to hex string
     *
     * @param binaryData array of byte to encode
     * @return return encoded string
     */
    static public String encode(byte[] binaryData) {
        if (binaryData == null)
            return null;
        int lengthData   = binaryData.length;
        int lengthEncode = lengthData * 2;
        char[] encodedData = new char[lengthEncode];
        int temp;
        for (int i = 0; i < lengthData; i++) {
            temp = binaryData[i];
            if (temp < 0)
                temp += 256;
            encodedData[i*2] = lookUpHexAlphabet[temp >> 4];
            encodedData[i*2+1] = lookUpHexAlphabet[temp & 0xf];
        }
        return new String(encodedData);
    }

}