Package java.nio

Class ByteOrder

java.lang.Object

java.nio.ByteOrder

public final class ByteOrder
extends Object

Defines byte order constants.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	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

Modifier and Type	Method	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 Details

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 Details

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.