[wm21 - android] how to generate MD5 for multiplatform (no replies)

Hi,

I going to explain how to generate MD5 for multi platform using wm21 - android to match with md5 generate by nodejs.

Please take Note that
1. UNICODE in WM21 is UTF-8 LE.
2. WM21 (android) doesn't support UTF-8 . the function stringtoUTF8() is actually covert unicode to ANSI.

ansi and utf-8 has alot similarity but ansi is not unicode while utf-8 is unicode.

as long as stay away from unicode character (chinese, japanese, etc..) , you won't have any problem.

--------------------------NO UNICODE characters---------------------------------------------
The following method will work as long as no unicode characters in the string . StringToUTF8() is only convert to ansi . wm21 won't throw any error but the md5 won't match.

------ Node JS (UTF-8) ---------------

var m_str = "QWERT";
console.log(crypto.createHash('md5').update(m_str).digest("hex"));

output
f1ce609eb6591ecd3dc405282fef22f9

----- WM21 android (UNICODE)

m_str is string = "QWERT"
info( BufferToHexa(HashString(HA_MD5_128,StringToUTF8(m_str))) )

output
f1 ce 60 9e b6 59 1e cd 3d c4 05 28 2f ef 22 f9



--------------------------contain UNICODE characters---------------------------------------------
in order to be able to use unicode character and since WM21 do not support UTF-8, the only solution is using WM21 (UNICODE) which is UTF-16 LE.

------ Node JS
on NodeJS convert it UTF-8 to UTF-16 LE

var m_str = 'セカイの果て';
var Iconv = require('iconv').Iconv;

var iconv = new Iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-16LE');
var Buff = iconv.convert(m_str);

console.log(crypto.createHash('md5').update(Buff).digest("hex"));

output
17cbe635a4b2d08caf1b8c42257d04e7


----- WM21 android (UNICODE)
since WM unicode is UTF-16 LE , no need to do any conversion

M_str is string = "セカイの果て"

Info(BufferToHexa(HashString(HA_MD5_128,M_str )) )

output
17 cb e6 35 a4 b2 d0 8c af 1b 8c 42 25 7d 04 e7


----------------------- conclusion ------------------------------------------------------
if your app do not use unicode characters then on use StringToUTF8() is safe . else if you need to use unicode characters then do the conversion UTF-16LE to UTF-8 on server side.