On 28/05/2009, Julius Davies <juliusdav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I created CODEC-75 (url-safe Base64) and attached a 20KB patch to the > ticket. Anyone interested in committing this? > > The patch improves codec's base64 handling in two ways: > > > 1. Ability to decode base64 streams which are missing the final > padding characters.
That changes the behaviour; there may be some applications that rely on detecting invalid Base64 data. IMO this new behaviour needs to be optional. > 2. Introduces "Base64.encodeBase64URLSafe()" method. > > > It appears (very cursory look-see on my part) that URL-Safe is part of > the reason Hadoop went elsewhere for its Base64: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-272 > > > > -- > yours, > > Julius Davies > 250-592-2284 (Home) > 250-893-4579 (Mobile) > http://juliusdavies.ca/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
