Use of getChar method of ByteBuffer Class in java.

In this tutorial you will see the use of getChar method of ByteBuffer Class in java.

In this tutorial you will see the use of getChar method of ByteBuffer Class in java.

Use of getChar method of ByteBuffer Class in java.

In this tutorial, we will discuss the use of getChar() method of ByteBuffer class to fetch the character.

In the given example, we will see how to get characters from byte buffer.
The put() method of ByteBuffer class write bytes into buffer, and the getChar() method of
ByteBuffer class returns the character at current position and increment the position by two bytes.

About ByteBuffer API:

The java.nio.ByteBuffer class extends java.nio.Buffer class. It provides the following methods:

Return type	Method	Description
abstract CharBuffer	asCharBuffer()	The asCharBuffer() method create a view of associated buffer as char buffer.
ByteBuffer	put()	The put() method write bytes into associated buffer.
abstract char	getChar()	The getChar(.) method returns character from byte buffer.

code


import java.io.*;

import java.nio.*;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;



public class GetChBuffer {

  public static final int size = 1024;

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

    ByteBuffer bytebuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(size);

    bytebuf.asCharBuffer().put("Bharat Singh");

    char c;

  System.out.print("Character available in buffer : ");

    while ((c = bytebuf.getChar()) != 0) {

      System.out.print(c);

    }

  }

}

output

C:\>java GetChBuffer
Character available in buffer : Bharat Singh

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