How to convert Strings to and from UTF8 byte arrays in Java

Question

In Java, I have a String and I want to encode it as a byte array (in UTF8, or some other encoding). Alternately, I have a byte array (in some known encoding) and I want to c

Answer 1

For decoding a series of bytes to a normal string message I finally got it working with UTF-8 encoding with this code:

/* Convert a list of UTF-8 numbers to a normal String
 * Usefull for decoding a jms message that is delivered as a sequence of bytes instead of plain text
 */
public String convertUtf8NumbersToString(String[] numbers){
    int length = numbers.length;
    byte[] data = new byte[length];

    for(int i = 0; i< length; i++){
        data[i] = Byte.parseByte(numbers[i]);
    }
    return new String(data, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
}