ByteBuffer Missing Data When decoded As string

Question

I'm reading and writing to a ByteBuffer

import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.ByteOrder;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;

public class Solution{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

    final CharsetEncoder messageEncoder = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1").newEncoder();
    String message = "TRANSACTION IGNORED";
    String carrierName= "CARR00AB";
    int messageLength = message.length()+carrierName.length()+8;


    System.out.println(" --------Fill data---------");
    ByteBuffer messageBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(4096);
    messageBuffer.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);
    messageBuffer.putInt(messageLength);
    messageBuffer.put(messageEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(carrierName)));
    messageBuffer.put(messageEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(message)));
    messageBuffer.put((byte) 0x2b);
    messageBuffer.flip();

    System.out.println("------------Extract Data Approach 1--------");

    CharsetDecoder messageDecoder = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1").newDecoder();
    int lengthField = messageBuffer.getInt();
    System.out.println("lengthField="+lengthField);
    int responseLength = lengthField - 12;
    System.out.println("responseLength="+responseLength);
    String messageDecoded= messageDecoder.decode(messageBuffer).toString();
    System.out.println("messageDecoded="+messageDecoded);
    String decodedCarrier = messageDecoded.substring(0, carrierName.length());
    System.out.println("decodedCarrier="+ decodedCarrier);
    String decodedBody = messageDecoded.substring(carrierName.length(), messageDecoded.length() - 1);
    System.out.println("decodedBody="+decodedBody);

    Assertions.assertThat(messageLength).isEqualTo(lengthField);
    Assertions.assertThat(decodedBody).isEqualTo(message);
    Assertions.assertThat(decodedBody).isEqualTo(message);

    ByteBuffer messageBuffer2 = ByteBuffer.allocate(4096);
    messageBuffer2.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);
    messageBuffer2.putInt(messageLength);
    messageBuffer2.put(messageEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(carrierName)));
    messageBuffer2.put(messageEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(message)));
    messageBuffer2.put((byte) 0x2b);
    messageBuffer2.flip();

    System.out.println("---------Extract Data Approach 2--------");

    byte [] data = new byte[messageBuffer2.limit()];
    messageBuffer2.get(data);
    String dataString =new String(data, "ISO-8859-1");
    System.out.println(dataString);

}
}

It works fine but then I thought to refactor it, Please see approach 2 in above code

    byte [] data = new byte[messageBuffer.limit()];
    messageBuffer.get(data);
    String dataString =new String(data, "ISO-8859-1");
    System.out.println(dataString);

 Output=     #CARR00ABTRANSACTION IGNORED+

Could you guys help me with explanation

1. why the integer is got missing in second approach while decoding ???

2. Is there any way to extract the integer in second approach??

Answer 1

Okay so you are trying to read an int from the Buffer which takes up 4 bits and then trying to get the whole data after reading 4 bits

What I have done is call messageBuffer2.clear(); after reading the int to resolve this issue. here is the full code

System.out.println(messageBuffer2.getInt());
byte[] data = new byte[messageBuffer2.limit()];
messageBuffer2.clear();
messageBuffer2.get(data);
String dataString = new String(data, StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
System.out.println(dataString);

Output is:

35
   #CARR0033TRANSACTION IGNORED+

Edit: So basically when you are calling clear it resets various variables and it also resets the position it's getting from and thats how it fixes it.