Java String.getBytes( charsetName ) vs String.getBytes ( Charset object )

Question

I need to encode a String to byte array using UTF-8 encoding. I am using Google guava, it has Charsets class already define Charset instance for UTF-8 encoding. I have 2 way

Answer 1

Since they return the same result, you should use method 2 because it generally safer and more efficient to avoid asking the library to parse and possibly break on a user-supplied string. Also, avoiding the try-catch will make your own code cleaner as well.

The Charsets.UTF_8 can be more easily checked at compile-time, which is most likely the reason you do not need a try-catch.