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BaseEncoding ignoreCase() option for base16 decoder

See original GitHub issue

When dealing with hex encoded input, I have to handle both lower and uppercase input. Since decoder ist strict, I would have to String.toLowerCase() the input before passing it to the decoder, which is another copy process.

Nicer would be BaseEncoding hex = BaseEncoding.base16().ignoreCase();

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Created 9 years ago
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Glamdringcommented, Aug 12, 2017

It’s certainly non-intuitive that it’s case-sensitive. Which violates the principle of least astonishment

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garnekecommented, Oct 5, 2017

I don’t understand why this closed in 2015 @haozhun ?
It maybe related to “Allow mixed case in from base functions #2669” but only if you limit your scope to strings. I need to be able to use the encodingStream and decodingStream and I need to be able to accept mixed case input streams for base16 decoding. I can be pretty sure the inputs will be consistent but can have no guaranty that they will be upper or lower cased

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