base64url in java

Java8+

import java.util.Base64;


return Base64.getUrlEncoder().encodeToString(bytes);

Base64 encoding is part of the JDK since Java 8. URL safe encoding is also supported with java.util.Base64.getUrlEncoder(), and the "=" padding can be skipped by additionally using the java.util.Base64.Encoder.withoutPadding() method:

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;

public String encode(String raw) {
    return Base64.getUrlEncoder()
            .withoutPadding()
            .encodeToString(raw.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
}

With the usage of Base64 from Apache Commons, who can be configured to URL safe, I created the following function:

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;

public static String base64UrlDecode(String input) {
    String result = null;
    Base64 decoder = new Base64(true);
    byte[] decodedBytes = decoder.decode(input);
    result = new String(decodedBytes);
    return result;
}

The constructor Base64(true) makes the decoding URL-safe.