Convert from 2 or 4 bytes to signed/unsigned short/int

Question

I have to convert bytes to signed/unsigned int or short.

The methods below are correct? Which is signed and which unsigned?

Byte order: LITTLE_ENDIAN

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Answer 1

There is a problem with the 4-byte unsigned conversion, because it doesn't fit into an int. The routines below work correctly.

public class IntegerConversion
{
  public static int convertTwoBytesToInt1 (byte b1, byte b2)      // signed
  {
    return (b2 << 8) | (b1 & 0xFF);
  }

  public static int convertFourBytesToInt1 (byte b1, byte b2, byte b3, byte b4)
  {
    return (b4 << 24) | (b3 & 0xFF) << 16 | (b2 & 0xFF) << 8 | (b1 & 0xFF);
  }

  public static int convertTwoBytesToInt2 (byte b1, byte b2)      // unsigned
  {
    return (b2 & 0xFF) << 8 | (b1 & 0xFF);
  }

  public static long convertFourBytesToInt2 (byte b1, byte b2, byte b3, byte b4)
  {
    return (long) (b4 & 0xFF) << 24 | (b3 & 0xFF) << 16 | (b2 & 0xFF) << 8 | (b1 & 0xFF);
  }

  public static void main (String[] args)
  {
    byte b1 = (byte) 0xFF;
    byte b2 = (byte) 0xFF;
    byte b3 = (byte) 0xFF;
    byte b4 = (byte) 0xFF;

    System.out.printf ("%,14d%n", convertTwoBytesToInt1 (b1, b2));
    System.out.printf ("%,14d%n", convertTwoBytesToInt2 (b1, b2));

    System.out.printf ("%,14d%n", convertFourBytesToInt1 (b1, b2, b3, b4));
    System.out.printf ("%,14d%n", convertFourBytesToInt2 (b1, b2, b3, b4));
  }
}