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public final class ByteOrder
extends Object

• Field Summary

  Fields

  Modifier and Type	Field and Description
  static ByteOrder	BIG_ENDIAN This constant represents big endian.
  static ByteOrder	LITTLE_ENDIAN This constant represents little endian.
  boolean	needsSwap This is the only thing that ByteOrder is really used for: to know whether we need to swap bytes to get this order, given bytes in native order.

• Method Summary

  Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method and Description
  static ByteOrder	nativeOrder() Returns the current platform byte order.
  String	toString() Returns a string that describes this object.

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

• Field Detail

  • BIG_ENDIAN

    public static final ByteOrder BIG_ENDIAN

    This constant represents big endian.

  • LITTLE_ENDIAN

    public static final ByteOrder LITTLE_ENDIAN

    This constant represents little endian.

  • needsSwap

    public final boolean needsSwap

    This is the only thing that ByteOrder is really used for: to know whether we need to swap bytes to get this order, given bytes in native order. (That is, this is the opposite of the hypothetical "isNativeOrder".)

• Method Detail

  • nativeOrder

    public static ByteOrder nativeOrder()

    Returns the current platform byte order.

    Returns:

    the byte order object, which is either LITTLE_ENDIAN or BIG_ENDIAN.

  • toString

    public String toString()

    Returns a string that describes this object.

    Overrides:

    toString in class Object

    Returns:

    "BIG_ENDIAN" for ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN objects, "LITTLE_ENDIAN" for ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN objects.