Getting string from netty ByteBuf
How can I get the string from a netty ByteBuf ? As of now I am able to get it character by character. Is there a way to get the string object directly? // message is of type ByteBuf for (int i = 0; i < message.capacity(); i++) { byte b = message.payload().getByte(i); System.out.print((char) b); } Use the provided method ByteBuf.toString(Charset) . use ByteBuf.readCharSequence() example is here: // here we use utf-8 decoding, you can choose the charset you want String s = ByteBuf.readCharSequence(length, Charset.forName("utf-8")).toString() note that ByteBuf.readCharSequence() returns java.lang