ByteOrder

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• ByteOrder is a typesafe enumeration used to represent the order of bytes in multibyte values.

• It provides two constants: BIG_ENDIAN and LITTLE_ENDIAN, indicating the most significant byte first and the least significant byte first, respectively.

• The nativeOrder() method retrieves the byte order of the underlying platform for efficient buffer allocation.

• The toString() method provides a string representation of the byte order, either "BIG_ENDIAN" or "LITTLE_ENDIAN".

public final class ByteOrder extends Object

A typesafe enumeration for byte orders.

Field Summary

public static final ByteOrder	BIG_ENDIAN	Constant denoting big-endian byte order.
public static final ByteOrder	LITTLE_ENDIAN	Constant denoting little-endian byte order.

Public Method Summary

static ByteOrder	nativeOrder() Retrieves the native byte order of the underlying platform.
String	toString() Constructs a string describing this object.

Inherited Method Summary

From class java.lang.Object

Object	clone() Creates and returns a copy of this Object.
boolean	equals(Object obj) Compares this instance with the specified object and indicates if they are equal.
void	finalize() Invoked when the garbage collector has detected that this instance is no longer reachable.
final Class<?>	getClass() Returns the unique instance of Class that represents this object's class.
int	hashCode() Returns an integer hash code for this object.
final void	notify() Causes a thread which is waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up.
final void	notifyAll() Causes all threads which are waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up.
String	toString() Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable description of this object.
final void	wait(long timeout, int nanos) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires.
final void	wait(long timeout) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires.
final void	wait() Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object.

Fields

public static final ByteOrder BIG_ENDIAN

Constant denoting big-endian byte order. In this order, the bytes of a multibyte value are ordered from most significant to least significant.

public static final ByteOrder LITTLE_ENDIAN

Constant denoting little-endian byte order. In this order, the bytes of a multibyte value are ordered from least significant to most significant.

Public Methods

public static ByteOrder nativeOrder ()

Retrieves the native byte order of the underlying platform.

This method is defined so that performance-sensitive Java code can allocate direct buffers with the same byte order as the hardware. Native code libraries are often more efficient when such buffers are used.

Returns

• The native byte order of the hardware upon which this Java virtual machine is running

public String toString ()

Constructs a string describing this object.

This method returns the string "BIG_ENDIAN" for BIG_ENDIAN and "LITTLE_ENDIAN" for LITTLE_ENDIAN.

Returns

• The specified string