## org.jfree.xml.util
Class Base64

    java.lang.Object
      org.jfree.xml.util.Base64

    public class Base64

extends java.lang.Object

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

Version:
  1.3
Author:
  Kevin Kelley (kelley@ruralnet.net)

Method Summary
`static byte[]` `decode(char[] data)` Decodes a BASE-64 encoded stream to recover the original data.
`static char[]` `encode(byte[] data)` returns an array of base64-encoded characters to represent the passed data array.
`static void` `main(java.lang.String[] args)` Entry point.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Method Detail

### encode

    public static char[] encode(byte[] data)

  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.

  Parameters:
    `data` - the character data.
  Returns:
    The decoded data.

### main

    public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

  Entry point.

  Parameters:
    `args` - the command line arguments.