SIP UUI Data Encoding

Per the IETF draft, strings passed via SIP UUI are encoded as hexadecimal digits representing their ASCII code.  Interestingly enough, the draft doesn't address how to pass strings from the larger character set covered by Unicode.

Example ASCII  to Hex Translation

ASCII Character string: cake
ASCII Decimal code:  99 97 107 101
ASCII Hexadecimal code (what goes on the wire): 63616B65

Below are a couple simple Java functions to perform these string translations:

Code

public class Decoder
{
 public String hexToString(String hex)
 {
  String str = "";
  if (hex != null)
   for (int i=0; i < hex.length()-1; i+=2)
    try
    {
     str += (char) Integer.parseInt(hex.substring(i, i+2),16);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
     return "";
    }
  return str;
 }

 public String StringtoHex(String str)
 {
  String hex = "";
  if (str != null)
   for (int i=0; i < str.length(); i++)
    hex += Integer.toHexString((int)str.charAt(i));

  return hex;
 }

 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  Decoder decoder = new Decoder();
  System.out.println(decoder.StringtoHex("test"));
  System.out.println(decoder.hexToString("74657374"));
}

Output

74657374

test

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