Python String to Java byte[]

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From what I have understood, A Python 2 string (type str) is nothing but a sequence of bytes. How do I convert such a string to a Java byte array, explicit?

A naive attempt that doesn't work:

from jarray import array
myStr = 'some str object'
myJavaArr = array(myStr, 'b') # TypeError: Type not compatible with array type

My reason to this is that when Jython implicitly converts a Python String to Java code, it converts it to a Java String, incorrectly because it doesn't know the encoding of the str.

holmis83 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-23 12:15:33Z

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I found an utility method that does the trick:

from org.python.core.util import StringUtil
myJavaArr = StringUtil.toBytes(myStr)

answered Sep 23, 2015 at 12:15

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dsh · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-27 18:04:53Z

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Your original approach of passing a str object to jarray.array() worked in Jython 2.5 and earlier.

Now you must convert the str to a sequence of numbers first (eg list, tuple, or bytearray):

myStr = 'some str object'
myJavaArr = array( bytearray(myStr), 'b')

or

myStr = 'some str object'
myList = [ord(ch) for ch in myStr]
myJavaArr = array( myList, 'b')

(see also https://sourceforge.net/p/jython/mailman/message/35003179/)

Note, too, that Java's byte type is signed. The conversion will fail if any of your integers have a value outside the range -128..127. If you are starting with unsigned byte values in Python, you'll need to convert them. (eg apply this to each value: if 0x80 <= i <= 0xFF: i = i - 256)

edited Feb 27, 2020 at 18:04

answered Feb 27, 2020 at 16:19

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