Here you can find the source of asByteArray(ByteBuffer buf)
public static byte[] asByteArray(ByteBuffer buf)
//package com.java2s; /**/*w w w . j a v a 2 s . c om*/ * Copyright 2007-2016, Kaazing Corporation. All rights reserved. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.nio.ByteBuffer; public class Main { /** * Gets the content of the ByteBuffer as a byte[] without mutating the buffer * (so thread safe) and minimizing GC (i.e. object creation) */ public static byte[] asByteArray(ByteBuffer buf) { byte[] result; if (buf.hasArray() && buf.arrayOffset() == 0 && buf.capacity() == buf.remaining()) { result = buf.array(); } else { result = new byte[buf.remaining()]; if (buf.hasArray()) { System.arraycopy(buf.array(), buf.arrayOffset() + buf.position(), result, 0, result.length); } else { // Direct buffer ByteBuffer duplicate = buf.duplicate(); duplicate.mark(); duplicate.get(result); duplicate.reset(); } } return result; } }