Not very often do I need to take a number of bytes and convert them into the most appropriate measurement. This came up recently on a project and I thought it would be nice to just create a class to handle this for me. So I created UnitOfMemory as enum that switches between Byte, KiloByte, MegaByte, GigaByte, TeraByte, and PetraByte. This works very nicely to be able to select the appropriate unit to measure with the number of bytes I have, and then to convert.<\/p>\n
This is just a simple Java Enum that uses a enum constructor to create an enum type based on the unit of measure of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n
package name.mymiller.extensions.lang;\n\nimport java.math.BigDecimal;\nimport java.math.BigInteger;\n\n\/**\n * Measure UnitOfTime based on milliseconds\n *\n * @author jmiller\n *\/\npublic enum UnitOfTime {\n \/\/@formatter:off\n \/**\n * Millieseconds\n *\/\n Millisecond(\"ms\", new BigInteger(\"1\")),\n \/**\n * Seconds\n *\/\n Second(\"secs\", new BigInteger(\"1000\")),\n \/**\n * Minutes\n *\/\n Minute(\"mins\", new BigInteger(\"60000\")),\n \/**\n * Hours\n *\/\n Hour(\"hours\", new BigInteger(\"3600000\")),\n \/**\n * Days\n *\/\n Day(\"days\", new BigInteger(\"86400000\")),\n \/**\n * Weeks\n *\/\n Week(\"weeks\", new BigInteger(\"604800000\")),\n \/**\n * Years\n *\/\n Year(\"years\", new BigInteger(\"31536000000\")),\n \/**\n * Millennium\n *\/\n Millennium(\"millennium\", new BigInteger(\"31536000000000\"));\n\n \/\/@formatter:on\n\n \/**\n * Label to use on this UnitOfTime\n *\/\n private String label = null;\n \/**\n * Total Millieseonds\n *\/\n private BigInteger milliseconds = null;\n\n \/**\n * Constructor for this UnitOfTime\n *\n * @param label Label to use\n * @param milliseconds Number of milliseconds to make this unit of time.\n *\/\n UnitOfTime(String label, BigInteger milliseconds) {\n this.label = label;\n this.milliseconds = milliseconds;\n }\n\n \/**\n * Convert a number of milliseconds into a Years Days Hours Minutes Seconds\n * Milliseconds format\n *\n * @param milliseconds Number of milliseconds to convert\n * @return String containing the conversion\n *\/\n public static String convert(BigInteger milliseconds) {\n BigInteger working = milliseconds;\n final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();\n\n final BigInteger years = UnitOfTime.Year.getMilliseconds().divide(working);\n working = working.subtract(years.multiply(UnitOfTime.Year.getMilliseconds()));\n\n final BigInteger days = UnitOfTime.Day.getMilliseconds().divide(working);\n working = working.subtract(days.multiply(UnitOfTime.Day.getMilliseconds()));\n\n final BigInteger hours = UnitOfTime.Hour.getMilliseconds().divide(working);\n working = working.subtract(hours.multiply(UnitOfTime.Hour.getMilliseconds()));\n\n final BigInteger minutes = UnitOfTime.Minute.getMilliseconds().divide(working);\n working = working.subtract(minutes.multiply(UnitOfTime.Minute.getMilliseconds()));\n\n final BigInteger seconds = UnitOfTime.Second.getMilliseconds().divide(working);\n working = working.subtract(seconds.multiply(UnitOfTime.Second.getMilliseconds()));\n\n if (years.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(years);\n builder.append(\" years \");\n }\n if (days.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(days);\n builder.append(\" days \");\n }\n if (hours.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(hours);\n builder.append(\" hours \");\n }\n if (minutes.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(minutes);\n builder.append(\" minutes \");\n }\n if (seconds.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(seconds);\n builder.append(\" seconds \");\n }\n if (working.longValue() != 0L) {\n builder.append(working);\n builder.append(\" milliseconds \");\n }\n\n return builder.toString();\n }\n\n \/**\n * Determine what unit to use based on the number of milliseconds\n *\n * @param milliseconds Total number of milliseconds\n * @return UnitOfTime you should use.\n *\/\n public static UnitOfTime useUnit(BigInteger milliseconds) {\n if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Millennium.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Millennium;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Year.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Year;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Week.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Week;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Day.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Day;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Hour.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Hour;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Minute.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Minute;\n } else if (milliseconds.compareTo(UnitOfTime.Second.getMilliseconds()) >= 0) {\n return UnitOfTime.Second;\n } else {\n return UnitOfTime.Millisecond;\n }\n }\n\n \/**\n * Determine what unit to use based on the number of milliseconds\n *\n * @param milliseconds Total number of milliseconds\n * @return UnitOfTime you should use.\n *\/\n public static UnitOfTime useUnit(Integer milliseconds) {\n return UnitOfTime.useUnit(BigInteger.valueOf(milliseconds));\n }\n\n \/**\n * Determine what unit to use based on the number of milliseconds\n *\n * @param milliseconds Total number of milliseconds\n * @return UnitOfTime you should use.\n *\/\n public static UnitOfTime useUnit(Long milliseconds) {\n return UnitOfTime.useUnit(BigInteger.valueOf(milliseconds));\n }\n\n \/**\n * @return the label\n *\/\n public final String getLabel() {\n return this.label;\n }\n\n \/**\n * @return the milliseconds\n *\/\n public final BigInteger getMilliseconds() {\n return this.milliseconds;\n }\n\n \/**\n * Convert to the 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