Java integer to byte array

using Java NIO's ByteBuffer is very simple:

byte[] bytes = ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(1695609641).array();

for (byte b : bytes) {
   System.out.format("0x%x ", b);
}

output:

0x65 0x10 0xf3 0x29 

How about:

public static final byte[] intToByteArray(int value) {
    return new byte[] {
            (byte)(value >>> 24),
            (byte)(value >>> 16),
            (byte)(value >>> 8),
            (byte)value};
}

The idea is not mine. I've taken it from some post on dzone.com.

byte[] conv = new byte[4];
conv[3] = (byte) input & 0xff;
input >>= 8;
conv[2] = (byte) input & 0xff;
input >>= 8;
conv[1] = (byte) input & 0xff;
input >>= 8;
conv[0] = (byte) input;

Because generally you would want to convert this array back to an int at a later point, here are the methods to convert an array of ints into an array of bytes and vice-versa:

public static byte[] convertToByteArray(final int[] pIntArray)
{
    final byte[] array = new byte[pIntArray.length * 4];
    for (int j = 0; j < pIntArray.length; j++)
    {
        final int c = pIntArray[j];
        array[j * 4] = (byte)((c & 0xFF000000) >> 24);
        array[j * 4 + 1] = (byte)((c & 0xFF0000) >> 16);
        array[j * 4 + 2] = (byte)((c & 0xFF00) >> 8);
        array[j * 4 + 3] = (byte)(c & 0xFF);
    }
    return array;
}

public static int[] convertToIntArray(final byte[] pByteArray)
{
    final int[] array = new int[pByteArray.length / 4];
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
        array[i] = (((int)(pByteArray[i * 4]) << 24) & 0xFF000000) |
                (((int)(pByteArray[i * 4 + 1]) << 16) & 0xFF0000) |
                (((int)(pByteArray[i * 4 + 2]) << 8) & 0xFF00) |
                ((int)(pByteArray[i * 4 + 3]) & 0xFF);
    return array;
}

Note that because of sign propagation and such, the "& 0xFF..." are needed when converting back to the int.

If you're using apache-commons

public static byte[] toByteArray(int value) {
    byte result[] = new byte[4];
    return Conversion.intToByteArray(value, 0, result, 0, 4);
}

The chunks below work at least for sending an int over UDP.

int to byte array:

public byte[] intToBytes(int my_int) throws IOException {
    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ObjectOutput out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
    out.writeInt(my_int);
    out.close();
    byte[] int_bytes = bos.toByteArray();
    bos.close();
    return int_bytes;
}

byte array to int:

public int bytesToInt(byte[] int_bytes) throws IOException {
    ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(int_bytes);
    ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bis);
    int my_int = ois.readInt();
    ois.close();
    return my_int;
}

integer & 0xFF

for the first byte

(integer >> 8) & 0xFF

for the second and loop etc., writing into a preallocated byte array. A bit messy, unfortunately.