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How do I decode a Base64 encoded binary?

By I Wayan Saryada in Apache Commons, Commons Codec Last modified: October 4, 2023 0 Comment

package org.kodejava.commons.codec;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Base64Decode {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String hello = "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=";

        // Decode a previously encoded string using decodeBase64 method and
        // passing the byte[] of the encoded string.
        byte[] decoded = Base64.decodeBase64(hello.getBytes());

        // Print the decoded array
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(decoded));

        // Convert the decoded byte[] back to the original string and print
        // the result.
        String decodedString = new String(decoded);
        System.out.println(hello + " = " + decodedString);
    }
}

The result of our code is:

[72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100]
SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ= = Hello World

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
    <version>1.16.0</version>
</dependency>

How do I encode binary data as Base64 string?

package org.kodejava.commons.codec;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Base64Encode {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String hello = "Hello World";

        // The encodeBase64 method take a byte[] as the parameter. The byte[]
        // can be from a simple string like in this example, or it can be from
        // an image file data.
        byte[] encoded = Base64.encodeBase64(hello.getBytes());

        // Print the encoded byte array
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(encoded));

        // Print the encoded string
        String encodedString = new String(encoded);
        System.out.println(hello + " = " + encodedString);
    }
}

The result of our program:

[83, 71, 86, 115, 98, 71, 56, 103, 86, 50, 57, 121, 98, 71, 81, 61]
Hello World = SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
    <version>1.16.0</version>
</dependency>

How do I sort files based on their last modified date?

By I Wayan Saryada in Apache Commons, Commons IO Last modified: October 2, 2023 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how to use Apache Commons IO LastModifiedFileComparator class to sort files based on their last modified date in ascending and descending order. There are two comparators defined in this class, the LASTMODIFIED_COMPARATOR and the LASTMODIFIED_REVERSE.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import static org.apache.commons.io.comparator.LastModifiedFileComparator.*;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class FileSortLastModified {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File dir = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));
        File[] files = dir.listFiles();

        if (files != null) {
            // Sort files in ascending order based on file's last
            // modification date.
            System.out.println("Ascending order.");
            Arrays.sort(files, LASTMODIFIED_COMPARATOR);
            FileSortLastModified.displayFileOrder(files);

            System.out.println("------------------------------------");

            // Sort files in descending order based on file's last
            // modification date.
            System.out.println("Descending order.");
            Arrays.sort(files, LASTMODIFIED_REVERSE);
            FileSortLastModified.displayFileOrder(files);
        }
    }

    private static void displayFileOrder(File[] files) {
        for (File file : files) {
            System.out.printf("%2$td/%2$tm/%2$tY - %s%n", file.getName(),
                    file.lastModified());
        }
    }
}

Here are the example results produced by the code snippet:

Ascending order.
15/12/2020 - ntuser.dat.LOG1
15/12/2020 - ntuser.ini
15/12/2020 - .m2
18/12/2020 - Contacts
22/12/2020 - Videos
01/01/2021 - VirtualBox VMs
02/01/2021 - Desktop
02/01/2021 - Documents
------------------------------------------
Descending order.
02/01/2021 - Documents
02/01/2021 - Desktop
01/01/2021 - VirtualBox VMs
22/12/20202 - Videos
18/12/20202 - Contacts
15/12/20202 - .m2
15/12/20202 - ntuser.ini
15/12/20202 - ntuser.dat.LOG1

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

How do I search for files recursively using Apache Commons IO?

By I Wayan Saryada in Apache Commons, Commons IO Last modified: October 2, 2023 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how we can use the FileUtils class listFiles() method to search for a file specified by their extensions. We can also define to find the file recursively deep down into the subdirectories.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Collection;

public class SearchFileRecursive {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File root = new File("F:/Wayan/Kodejava/kodejava-example");

        try {
            String[] extensions = {"xml", "java", "dat"};

            // Find files within a root directory and optionally its
            // subdirectories, which match an array of extensions. When the
            // extensions are null, all files will be returned.
            //
            // This method will return matched file as java.io.File
            Collection<File> files = FileUtils.listFiles(root, extensions, true);

            for (File file : files) {
                System.out.println("File = " + file.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

How do I delete file from FTP server?

By I Wayan Saryada in Apache Commons, Commons Net Last modified: October 17, 2023 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how to delete file from FTP server.

package org.kodejava.commons.net;

import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient;

import java.io.IOException;

public class FTPDeleteDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FTPClient client = new FTPClient();

        try {
            client.connect("ftp.example.com");
            client.login("demo", "password");

            // Delete file on the FTP server. When the FTP delete
            // process completes, it returns true.
            String filename = "data.txt";
            boolean deleted = client.deleteFile(filename);
            if (deleted) {
                System.out.printf("File %s was deleted...", filename);
            } else {
                System.out.println("No file was deleted...");
            }

            client.logout();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                client.disconnect();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-net</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
    <version>3.10.0</version>
</dependency>