Converting byte array to String (Java)

Question

I\'m writing a web application in Google app Engine. It allows people to basically edit html code that gets stored as an .html file in the blobstore.

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Answer 1

Java 7 and above

You can also pass your desired encoding to the String constructor as a Charset constant from StandardCharsets. This may be safer than passing the encoding as a String, as suggested in the other answers.

For example, for UTF-8 encoding

String bytesAsString = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);