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bensie / toByteArray.java

Created 2011-03-12

    /**
     * Returns a byte array containing the two's-complement
     * representation of this BigInteger.  The byte array will be in
     * <i>big-endian</i> byte-order: the most significant byte is in
     * the zeroth element.  The array will contain the minimum number
     * of bytes required to represent this BigInteger, including at
     * least one sign bit, which is <tt>(ceil((this.bitLength() +
     * 1)/8))</tt>.  (This representation is compatible with the
     * {@link #BigInteger(byte[]) (byte[])} constructor.)
     *
     * @return a byte array containing the two's-complement representation of
     *	       this BigInteger.
     * @see    #BigInteger(byte[])
     */
    public byte[] toByteArray() {
        int byteLen = bitLength()/8 + 1;
        byte[] byteArray = new byte[byteLen];
 
        for (int i=byteLen-1, bytesCopied=4, nextInt=0, intIndex=0; i>=0; i--) {
            if (bytesCopied == 4) {
                nextInt = getInt(intIndex++);
                bytesCopied = 1;
            } else {
                nextInt >>>= 8;
                bytesCopied++;
            }
            byteArray[i] = (byte)nextInt;
        }
        return byteArray;
    }