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base64

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Data encoding and decoding using Base64 algorithms.

var base64 = require("sdk/base64");
 
var encodedData = base64.encode("Hello, World");
var decodedData = base64.decode(encodedData);

Globals

Functions

encode(data, charset)

Creates a base-64 encoded ASCII string from a string of binary data.

Parameters

data : string
The data to encode

charset : string
The charset of the string to encode (optional). The only accepted value is "utf-8". In order to encode and decode Unicode strings, the charset parameter needs to be set:

var base64 = require("sdk/base64");

var encodedData = base64.encode(unicodeString, "utf-8");
Returns

string : The encoded string

decode(data, charset)

Decodes a string of data which has been encoded using base-64 encoding.

Parameters

data : string
The encoded data

charset : string
The charset of the string to encode (optional). The only accepted value is "utf-8". In order to encode and decode Unicode strings, the charset parameter needs to be set:

var base64 = require("sdk/base64");

var decodedData = base64.decode(encodedData, "utf-8");
Returns

string : The decoded string

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