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+/**
+ *    Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
+ *    University
+ *
+ *    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ *    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+ *    a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ *    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ *    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ *    under the License.
+ **/
+
+package org.projectfloodlight.openflow.util;
+
+import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.types.U8;
+
+public class HexString {
+    /**
+     * Convert a string of bytes to a ':' separated hex string
+     *
+     * @param bytes
+     * @return "0f:ca:fe:de:ad:be:ef"
+     */
+    public static String toHexString(final byte[] bytes) {
+        int i;
+        String ret = "";
+        String tmp;
+        for (i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
+            if (i > 0)
+                ret += ":";
+            tmp = Integer.toHexString(U8.f(bytes[i]));
+            if (tmp.length() == 1)
+                ret += "0";
+            ret += tmp;
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    public static String toHexString(final long val, final int padTo) {
+        char arr[] = Long.toHexString(val).toCharArray();
+        String ret = "";
+        // prepend the right number of leading zeros
+        int i = 0;
+        for (; i < (padTo * 2 - arr.length); i++) {
+            ret += "0";
+            if ((i % 2) != 0)
+                ret += ":";
+        }
+        for (int j = 0; j < arr.length; j++) {
+            ret += arr[j];
+            if ((((i + j) % 2) != 0) && (j < (arr.length - 1)))
+                ret += ":";
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    public static String toHexString(final long val) {
+        return toHexString(val, 8);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Convert a string of hex values into a string of bytes
+     *
+     * @param values
+     *            "0f:ca:fe:de:ad:be:ef"
+     * @return [15, 5 ,2, 5, 17]
+     * @throws NumberFormatException
+     *             If the string can not be parsed
+     */
+    public static byte[] fromHexString(final String values) throws NumberFormatException {
+        String[] octets = values.split(":");
+        byte[] ret = new byte[octets.length];
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < octets.length; i++) {
+            if (octets[i].length() > 2)
+                throw new NumberFormatException("Invalid octet length");
+            ret[i] = Integer.valueOf(octets[i], 16).byteValue();
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    public static long toLong(String value) throws NumberFormatException {
+        String[] octets = value.split(":");
+        if (octets.length > 8)
+            throw new NumberFormatException("Input string is too big to fit in long: " + value);
+        long l = 0;
+        for (String octet: octets) {
+            if (octet.length() > 2)
+                throw new NumberFormatException("Each colon-separated byte component must consist of 1 or 2 hex digits: " + value);
+            short s = Short.parseShort(octet, 16);
+            l = (l << 8) + s;
+        }
+        return l;
+    }
+}