Field Detail

• MIME

  public static final Base64Variant MIME

  This variant is what most people would think of "the standard" Base64 encoding.

  See wikipedia Base64 entry for details.

  Note that although this can be thought of as the standard variant, it is not the default for Jackson: no-linefeeds alternative is because of JSON requirement of escaping all linefeeds.

• MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS

  public static final Base64Variant MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS

  Slightly non-standard modification of MIME which does not use linefeeds (max line length set to infinite). Useful when linefeeds wouldn't work well (possibly in attributes), or for minor space savings (save 1 linefeed per 76 data chars, ie. ~1.4% savings).

• PEM

  public static final Base64Variant PEM

  This variant is the one that predates MIME: it is otherwise identical, except that it mandates shorter line length.

• MODIFIED_FOR_URL

  public static final Base64Variant MODIFIED_FOR_URL

  This non-standard variant is usually used when encoded data needs to be passed via URLs (such as part of GET request). It differs from the base MIME variant in multiple ways. First, no padding is used: this also means that it generally can not be written in multiple separate but adjacent chunks (which would not be the usual use case in any case). Also, no linefeeds are used (max line length set to infinite). And finally, two characters (plus and slash) that would need quoting in URLs are replaced with more optimal alternatives (hyphen and underscore, respectively).

Constructor Detail

• Base64Variants

  public Base64Variants()

Method Detail

• getDefaultVariant

  public static Base64Variant getDefaultVariant()

  Method used to get the default variant ("MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS") for cases where caller does not explicitly specify the variant. We will prefer no-linefeed version because linefeeds in JSON values must be escaped, making linefeed-containing variants sub-optimal.

• valueOf

  public static Base64Variant valueOf(String name)
                               throws IllegalArgumentException

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException

  Since:

  2.1