Concat two ByteBuffers in Java

Question

How can I concat two ByteBuffers to one ByteBuffer?

The following doesn't work:

    ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(100);
    ByteBuffer bb2 = ByteBuffer.allocate(200);
    bb.allocate(200).put(bb2);
    System.out.println(bb.array().length);

The length of bb is still 100.

Answer 1

Something like

bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(300).put(bb).put(bb2);

should do the job: Create a buffer that is large enough to hold the contents of both buffers, and then use the relative put-methods to fill it with the first and the second buffer. (The put method returns the instance that the method was called on, by the way)

Answer 2

We'll be copying all data. Remember that this is why string concatenation is expensive!

public static ByteBuffer concat(final ByteBuffer... buffers) {
    final ByteBuffer combined = ByteBuffer.allocate(Arrays.stream(buffers).mapToInt(Buffer::remaining).sum());
    Arrays.stream(buffers).forEach(b -> combined.put(b.duplicate()));
    return combined;
}