Unable to assign getBytes() to byte array

Question

I'm completely stumped.. Seems like there'd be a simple solution

private Byte[] arrayOfBytes = null;    

public Data(String input) {
    arrayOfBytes = new Byte[input.getBytes().length];
    arrayOfBytes = input.getBytes();
}

Throws the follwing error:

incompatible types
    required: java.lang.Byte[]
    found: byte[]

Answer 1

getBytes() from String returns a byte[] and you are trying to affect it to a Byte[].

byte is a primitive whereas Byte is a wrapper class (kind of like Integer and int).

What you can do is change :

private Byte[] arrayOfBytes = null;

to :

private byte[] arrayOfBytes = null;