[Php-java-bridge-users] Bytes are getting mistranslated somewhere

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Greetings, all--

I'm trying to use an object which sets and gets a byte array, and I
noticed that the bytes I put in are different from the bytes I get out.
I was able to narrow down the problem to this brief script:

	$file =3D file_get_contents("fw4.pdf");
	$string =3D new Java("java.lang.String", $file);
	$bytes =3D $string->getBytes();

	echo strcmp($file, $bytes);

I read a binary file in (available at
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf), put it into a Java string, and
spit out the bytes.  That comparison returns -1, not equal.  (For what
it's worth, when I just echo the file_get_contents(), the data comes out
fully parseable, and identical to the source file.)

I also tried to read the file in with a FileInputStream and output it
immediately to a ByteArrayOutputStream (which takes forever, by the way)
and got the same result:

	$phpfile =3D file_get_contents("fw4.pdf");

	$file =3D new Java('java.io.File', 'fw4.pdf');
	$inputStream =3D new Java('java.io.FileInputStream', $file);
	$outputStream =3D new Java('java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream');
=09
	while ($inputStream->available()) {
		$outputStream->write($inputStream->read());
	}

	$bytes =3D $outputStream->toByteArray()
=09
	echo strcmp($phpfile, $bytes);

Any help on the proper handling of byte arrays would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Jonathan Abbett