[9] RFR 8170769: Provide a simple hexdump facility for binary data

[Vincent Ryan]

Unfortunately this feature has arrived a little too late so I’m withdrawing it from consideration for JDK 9.
Thanks again to those who took time to review it.


> On 10 Dec 2016, at 01:02, Vincent Ryan <vincent.x.ryan at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to those who provided review comments.
> 
> I have incorporated most of them and updated the webrev:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8170769/webrev.01/
> 
> The main changes are to tighten up the javadoc spec and to add three additional methods
> to support byte array ranges. The total number of public methods is now 7.
> 
> I have not added support for InputStream or ByteBuffer. I think what we have in place is
> sufficient for now and HexDump can be enhanced later if there is demand.
> 
> The other issue is related to streams implementation and I’d like to defer that until later.
> 
> 
> I think the API is in good shape now but please let me know if there are any must-fix API issues.
> Otherwise I will consider the API finalised and move this forward.
> 
> Thanks.
>