Gets byte array from a ByteBuffer in java

Question

Is this the recommended way to get the bytes from the ByteBuffer

ByteBuffer bb =..

byte[] b = new byte[bb.remaining()]
bb.get(b, 0, b.length);

Answer 1

As simple as that

  private static byte[] getByteArrayFromByteBuffer(ByteBuffer byteBuffer) {
    byte[] bytesArray = new byte[byteBuffer.remaining()];
    byteBuffer.get(bytesArray, 0, bytesArray.length);
    return bytesArray;
}