com.google.zxing.common

Class BitSource

java.lang.Object

com.google.zxing.common.BitSource

public final class BitSource
extends Object

This provides an easy abstraction to read bits at a time from a sequence of bytes, where the number of bits read is not often a multiple of 8.

This class is thread-safe but not reentrant. Unless the caller modifies the bytes array it passed in, in which case all bets are off.

Author:

Sean Owen

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BitSource(byte[] bytes)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	available()
int	readBits(int numBits)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BitSource

public BitSource(byte[] bytes)

Parameters:

bytes - bytes from which this will read bits. Bits will be read from the first byte first. Bits are read within a byte from most-significant to least-significant bit.

Method Detail

readBits

public int readBits(int numBits)

Parameters:

numBits - number of bits to read

Returns:

int representing the bits read. The bits will appear as the least-significant bits of the int

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if numBits isn't in [1,32]

available

public int available()

Returns:

number of bits that can be read successfully