base64
The module provides data encoding and decoding using Base64 algorithms.
Example
var base64 = require("api-utils/base64");
var encodedData = base64.encode("Hello, World");
var decodedData = base64.decode(encodedData);
Unicode Strings
In order to encode and decode properly Unicode strings, the charset
parameter needs to be set to "utf-8":
var base64 = require("api-utils/base64");
var encodedData = base64.encode(unicodeString, "utf-8");
var decodedData = base64.decode(encodedData, "utf-8");
API Reference
Functions
encode(data, charset)
Creates a base-64 encoded ASCII string from a string of binary data.
data : string
The data to encode
[ charset : string ]
The charset of the string to encode (optional).
The only accepted value is "utf-8".
Returns: string
The encoded string
decode(data, charset)
Decodes a string of data which has been encoded using base-64 encoding.
data : string
The encoded data
[ charset : string ]
The charset of the string to encode (optional).
The only accepted value is "utf-8".
Returns: string
The decoded string
