Package com.google.common.base

Class Utf8

  • @Beta
@GwtCompatible
public final class Utf8
extends java.lang.Object
    Low-level, high-performance utility methods related to the UTF-8 character encoding. UTF-8 is defined in section D92 of The Unicode Standard Core Specification, Chapter 3.

    The variant of UTF-8 implemented by this class is the restricted definition of UTF-8 introduced in Unicode 3.1. One implication of this is that it rejects "non-shortest form" byte sequences, even though the JDK decoder may accept them.

    Since:
    16.0

    • Method Summary

      All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      static int encodedLength​(java.lang.CharSequence sequence)
      Returns the number of bytes in the UTF-8-encoded form of sequence.
      static boolean isWellFormed​(byte[] bytes)
      Returns true if bytes is a well-formed UTF-8 byte sequence according to Unicode 6.0.
      static boolean isWellFormed​(byte[] bytes, int off, int len)
      Returns whether the given byte array slice is a well-formed UTF-8 byte sequence, as defined by isWellFormed(byte[]).

      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

    • Method Detail

      • encodedLength

        public static int encodedLength​(java.lang.CharSequence sequence)
        Returns the number of bytes in the UTF-8-encoded form of sequence. For a string, this method is equivalent to string.getBytes(UTF_8).length, but is more efficient in both time and space.
        Throws:
        java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if sequence contains ill-formed UTF-16 (unpaired surrogates)

      • isWellFormed

        public static boolean isWellFormed​(byte[] bytes)
        Returns true if bytes is a well-formed UTF-8 byte sequence according to Unicode 6.0. Note that this is a stronger criterion than simply whether the bytes can be decoded. For example, some versions of the JDK decoder will accept "non-shortest form" byte sequences, but encoding never reproduces these. Such byte sequences are not considered well-formed.

        This method returns true if and only if Arrays.equals(bytes, new String(bytes, UTF_8).getBytes(UTF_8)) does, but is more efficient in both time and space.

      • isWellFormed

        public static boolean isWellFormed​(byte[] bytes,
                                   int off,
                                   int len)
        Returns whether the given byte array slice is a well-formed UTF-8 byte sequence, as defined by isWellFormed(byte[]). Note that this can be false even when isWellFormed(bytes) is true.
        Parameters:
        bytes - the input buffer
        off - the offset in the buffer of the first byte to read
        len - the number of bytes to read from the buffer