Converting between strings and ArrayBuffers

Question

Is there a commonly accepted technique for efficiently converting JavaScript strings to ArrayBuffers and vice-versa? Specifically, I\'d like to be able to write the contents

Answer 1

The "native" binary string that atob() returns is a 1-byte-per-character Array.

So we shouldn't store 2 byte into a character.

var arrayBufferToString = function(buffer) {
  return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(buffer));
}

var stringToArrayBuffer = function(str) {
  return (new Uint8Array([].map.call(str,function(x){return x.charCodeAt(0)}))).buffer;
}