hey so I m having an issue with Base64 encoding it seems whe kotlinlang #getting-started

hey so I’m having an issue with Base64 encoding, it seems whenever I encode a certain string in my app, the result is different from when I use something like base64encode.org, always different

spand

11/25/2019, 11:56 AM

Charset difference maybe ?

oday

11/25/2019, 11:56 AM

i just tried on a much smaller string.. it was the same

hm!

bjartek

11/25/2019, 12:04 PM

check that both strings have or do not have a newline at the end?

https://superuser.com/questions/1225134/why-does-the-base64-of-a-string-contain-n/1225334 might give some hints

Ubi

11/25/2019, 12:09 PM

@bjartek is most probably correct. Try to

.trim()

the string before encoding to test. (Note! trim only if you really want to remove empty spaces or

\n

at the end of your string)

oday

11/25/2019, 12:14 PM

the string was littered with \n

it was like this

"{\n" +
                    "\"userId\":\"${fireAuth.currentUser?.uid}\",\n" +
                    "\"carId\":\"${carDetails.id}\",\n" +
                    "\"car\":\"${carDetails.make} ${carDetails.model} ${carDetails.submodel} ${carDetails.year}\",\n" +
                    "\"sellerPhone\":\"+971504421995\",\n" +
                    "\"buyerEmail":"${fireAuth.currentUser?.email}\"" +
                    "\n}"

now its like this

"{" +
                    "\"userId\":\"${fireAuth.currentUser?.uid}\"," +
                    "\"carId\":\"${carDetails.id}\"," +
                    "\"car\":\"${carDetails.make} ${carDetails.model} ${carDetails.submodel} ${carDetails.year}\"," +
                    "\"sellerPhone\":\"+971504421995\"," +
                    "\"buyerEmail":"${fireAuth.currentUser?.email}\"" +
                    "}"

produces the correct encoding result

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