Add a convenience overload of hex_encode taking a MemoryRegion<byte>&

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/codec/hex/hex.cpp b/src/codec/hex/hex.cpp
index 6cef71fec..8efdd3ccd 100644
--- a/src/codec/hex/hex.cpp
+++ b/src/codec/hex/hex.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ void hex_encode(char output[],
       }
    }
 
+std::string hex_encode(const MemoryRegion<byte>& input,
+                       bool uppercase)
+   {
+   return hex_encode(&input[0],
+                     input.size(),
+                     uppercase);
+   }
+
 std::string hex_encode(const byte input[],
                        u32bit input_length,
                        bool uppercase)
diff --git a/src/codec/hex/hex.h b/src/codec/hex/hex.h
index 91a743b45..afef1ec84 100644
--- a/src/codec/hex/hex.h
+++ b/src/codec/hex/hex.h
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ std::string BOTAN_DLL hex_encode(const byte input[],
                                  bool uppercase = true);
 
 /**
+* Perform hex encoding
+* @param input some input
+* @param uppercase should output be upper or lower case?
+* @return hexadecimal representation of input
+*/
+std::string BOTAN_DLL hex_encode(const MemoryRegion<byte>& input,
+                                 bool uppercase = true);
+
+/**
 * Perform hex decoding
 * @param output an array of at least input_length/2 bytes
 * @param input some hex input