DRY: Use `Charset` statics to eliminate exceptions

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java b/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
index ee2eddb0..04ac7c9a 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/ByteString.java
@@ -263,6 +263,18 @@ public abstract class ByteString implements Iterable<Byte>, Serializable {
   }
 
   /**
+   * Encodes {@code text} into a sequence of bytes using the named charset
+   * and returns the result as a {@code ByteString}.
+   *
+   * @param text source string
+   * @param charset encode using this charset
+   * @return new {@code ByteString}
+   */
+  public static ByteString copyFrom(String text, Charset charset) {
+    return new LiteralByteString(text.getBytes(charset));
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Encodes {@code text} into a sequence of UTF-8 bytes and returns the
    * result as a {@code ByteString}.
    *