package de.tudarmstadt.informatik.hostage.wrapper;
/**
 * Wrapper class to use a byte array as an Object.
 * @author Mihai Plasoianu 
 *
 */
public class ByteArray {

	private final byte[] array;

	/**
	 * Constructor without parameters. Sets the internal array to null.
	 */
	public ByteArray() {
		this.array = null;
	}

	/**
	 * Constructor with a byte arrays as parameter. Sets the internal array to the given.
	 * @param array The byte array that should be wrapped.
	 */
	public ByteArray(byte[] array) {
		this.array = array;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Constructor with a String as parameter. Sets the internal array to a byte array representation of the string.
	 * @param string
	 */
	public ByteArray(String string) {
		this.array = string.getBytes();
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the byte array.
	 * @return The byte array
	 */
	public byte[] get() {
		return array;
	}

	/**
	 * Determines size of the array.
	 * @return Size of the array
	 */
	public int size() {
		return array.length;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return new String(array);
	}

}