From 1626a11a69743a19f383fee52b89c13123a2030f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Azhwani <azh.abderrahim@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:39:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-8276: Convert Between ByteBuffer and Byte Array in Java

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 ...teBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest.java | 77 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java-modules/core-java-nio-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/bytebuffer/ByteBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest.java

diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/bytebuffer/ByteBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/bytebuffer/ByteBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ccae4328f024
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/bytebuffer/ByteBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package com.baeldung.bytebuffer;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThrows;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.ReadOnlyBufferException;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class ByteBufferToByteArrayConversionUnitTest {
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteBuffer_whenUsingArrayMethod_thenConvertToByteArray() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {1, 6, 3};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(givenBytes);
+        byte[] bytes = buffer.array();
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(bytes, givenBytes);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenReadOnlyBuffer_whenCallingArray_thenThrowException() {
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(new byte[] {1, 2, 3});
+        ByteBuffer readOnlyBuffer = buffer.asReadOnlyBuffer();
+
+        assertThrows(ReadOnlyBufferException.class, readOnlyBuffer::array);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteBuffer_whenUsingGetMethod_thenConvertToByteArray() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {5, 4, 2};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(givenBytes);
+        byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.remaining()];
+        buffer.get(bytes);
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(bytes, givenBytes);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteBuffer_whenUsingGetWithParamsMethod_thenConvertToByteArray() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {5, 4, 2, 7};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(givenBytes);
+        byte[] bytes = new byte[2];
+        buffer.get(bytes, 0, 2);
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(bytes, new byte[] {5, 4});
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteArray_whenUsingWrapMethod_thenConvertToByteBuffer() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {1, 2, 3};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(givenBytes);
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(buffer.array(), givenBytes);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteArray_whenUsingWrapWithParamsMethod_thenConvertToByteBuffer() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {1, 2, 3, 7, 8};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(givenBytes, 1, 2);
+        
+        byte[] actualBytes = new byte[buffer.remaining()];
+        buffer.get(actualBytes);
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(actualBytes, new byte[] {2, 3});
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    void givenByteArray_whenUsingAllocateAndPutMethods_thenConvertToByteBuffer() {
+        byte[] givenBytes = {1, 9, 7};
+        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(givenBytes.length);
+        buffer.put(givenBytes);
+        
+        assertArrayEquals(buffer.array(), givenBytes);
+    }
+}