Byte array to Hex string conversion in javascript

Question

I have a byte array of the form [4,-101,122,-41,-30,23,-28,3,..] which I want to convert in the form 6d69f597b217fa333246c2c8 I\'m using below func

Answer 1

When converting a byte array to a hex array, we have to consider how they can be signed numbers. If so, we gotta convert them to decimal numbers first. signed numbers to decimal conversion. Then, we can use the .toString(16) method to convert it to hex.

const hexArr = byteArr.map((byte) => {
    if (byte < 0) {
      byte = -((byte ^ 0xff) + 1); //converting 2s complement to a decimal number
    }
    //add padding at the start to ensure it's always 2 characters long otherwise '01' will be '1'
    return byte.toString(16).padStart(2, '0'); 
});