Base64 (JavaDocs for mmm-all 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT)

java.lang.Object
- io.github.mmm.binary.codec.Base
- - io.github.mmm.binary.codec.BaseGeneric
  - - io.github.mmm.binary.codec.Base64

All Implemented Interfaces:

BinaryCodec
```
public final class Base64
extends BaseGeneric
```
Base64 is a encoding that has an alphabet with 64 letters. As all ASCII Latin letters and digits together make 62 distinct characters this encoding requires some additional special ASCII characters (e.g. '+', '/', '-', or '_'). As typical text selection of operating systems triggered by double clicking only marks alpha-numerical words but stops at special characters a Base64 encoded representation is not as user-friendly. Also typical alphabets contain similar looking characters like 'O' and '0' or '1' and 'l'. However, still Base64 is a very common and especially efficient encoding.

Since:

1.0.0

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static Base64`	`DEFAULT`	Default instance for `Base64` according to RFC 4648 (Table 1).
`static Base64`	`URL`	Instance for `Base64` for usage in URLs according to RFC 4648 (Table 2).

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type Method Description

boolean isCaseSensitive()
- Methods inherited from class io.github.mmm.binary.codec.BaseGeneric
  createConfig, doDecode, doEncode
- Methods inherited from class io.github.mmm.binary.codec.Base
  decode, encode, getAlphabet, toString, withFormat
- Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
  clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
- Methods inherited from interface io.github.mmm.binary.codec.BinaryCodec
  decodeInt, decodeLong, decodeShort, encodeInt, encodeLong, encodeShort

- Field Detail
  - DEFAULT
```
public static final Base64 DEFAULT
```
    Default instance for Base64 according to RFC 4648 (Table 1).
  - URL
```
public static final Base64 URL
```
    Instance for Base64 for usage in URLs according to RFC 4648 (Table 2).
- Method Detail
  - isCaseSensitive
```
public boolean isCaseSensitive()
```
    Overrides:
    
    isCaseSensitive in class BaseGeneric
    
    Returns:
    
    true if case-sensitive (e.g. both 'a' and 'A' are used with different meanings), false otherwise (the case of Latin Ascii letters will be ignored).