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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2004-2014 Volker Bergmann ([email protected]).
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package org.databene.commons.converter;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import org.databene.commons.ConfigurationError;
import org.databene.commons.ConversionException;
import org.databene.commons.SystemInfo;

/**
 * Converts byte arrays to Strings based on a character encoding, e.g. UTF-8.
 * Created: 26.02.2010 08:26:55
 * @since 0.5.0
 * @author Volker Bergmann
 */
public class ByteArray2StringConverter extends ThreadSafeConverter {

    private String encoding;
    
    public ByteArray2StringConverter() {
        this(SystemInfo.getFileEncoding());
    }

    public ByteArray2StringConverter(String encoding) {
        super(byte[].class, String.class);
        this.encoding = encoding;
    }

    @Override
	public String convert(byte[] target) throws ConversionException {
        try {
            return new String(target, encoding);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new ConfigurationError(e);
        }
    }

}