kotlin sha256
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Step 1: Import the necessary libraries
To calculate the SHA-256 hash in Kotlin, you need to import the MessageDigest
class from the java.security
package.
import java.security.MessageDigest
Step 2: Create a function to calculate the hash Create a function that takes a string as input and returns the SHA-256 hash of that string.
fun calculateSHA256(input: String): String {
// ...
}
Step 3: Get an instance of the SHA-256 algorithm
Inside the calculateSHA256
function, get an instance of the SHA-256 algorithm using the getInstance
method of the MessageDigest
class.
val md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256")
Step 4: Convert the input string to bytes
Convert the input string to bytes using the toByteArray
method.
val inputBytes = input.toByteArray()
Step 5: Update the message digest with the input bytes
Update the message digest with the input bytes using the update
method of the MessageDigest
class.
md.update(inputBytes)
Step 6: Calculate the hash
Calculate the hash by calling the digest
method of the MessageDigest
class. This will return a byte array.
val hashBytes = md.digest()
Step 7: Convert the byte array to a hexadecimal string
Convert the byte array to a hexadecimal string using the StringBuilder
class and the format
method.
val hexString = StringBuilder()
for (byte in hashBytes) {
val hex = String.format("%02x", byte)
hexString.append(hex)
}
Step 8: Return the hexadecimal string
Return the hexadecimal string as the result of the calculateSHA256
function.
return hexString.toString()
That's it! Now you have a function calculateSHA256
that takes a string as input and returns the SHA-256 hash of that string in Kotlin.