From 5e86c1df5f479ea62876ced6a5ec19a784f2eb7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Halil ibrahim Kalkan <hi_kalkan@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:59:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Added new string extension: GetBytes

---
 .../System/AbpStringExtensions.cs             | 20 +++++++++++++++
 .../System/StringExtensions_Tests.cs          | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Volo.Abp.Core/System/AbpStringExtensions.cs b/src/Volo.Abp.Core/System/AbpStringExtensions.cs
index de869fad35..d97d8326a3 100644
--- a/src/Volo.Abp.Core/System/AbpStringExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Volo.Abp.Core/System/AbpStringExtensions.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using JetBrains.Annotations;
 using Volo.Abp;
 
 namespace System
@@ -404,5 +405,24 @@ namespace System
 
             return str.Left(maxLength - postfix.Length) + postfix;
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Converts given string to a byte array using <see cref="Encoding.UTF8"/> encoding.
+        /// </summary>
+        public static byte[] GetBytes(this string str)
+        {
+            return str.GetBytes(Encoding.UTF8);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Converts given string to a byte array using the given <paramref name="encoding"/>
+        /// </summary>
+        public static byte[] GetBytes([NotNull] this string str, [NotNull] Encoding encoding)
+        {
+            Check.NotNull(str, nameof(str));
+            Check.NotNull(encoding, nameof(encoding));
+
+            return encoding.GetBytes(str);
+        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/Volo.Abp.Core.Tests/System/StringExtensions_Tests.cs b/test/Volo.Abp.Core.Tests/System/StringExtensions_Tests.cs
index 853c2cbb83..3246372e21 100644
--- a/test/Volo.Abp.Core.Tests/System/StringExtensions_Tests.cs
+++ b/test/Volo.Abp.Core.Tests/System/StringExtensions_Tests.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using Shouldly;
+using System.Text;
+using Shouldly;
 using Volo.Abp.Localization;
 using Xunit;
 
@@ -193,6 +194,28 @@ namespace System
             "MyValue2".ToEnum<MyEnum>().ShouldBe(MyEnum.MyValue2);
         }
 
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("")]
+        [InlineData("MyStringİ")]
+        public void GetBytes_Test(string str)
+        {
+            var bytes = str.GetBytes();
+            bytes.ShouldNotBeNull();
+            bytes.Length.ShouldBeGreaterThan(0);
+            Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes).ShouldBe(str);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("")]
+        [InlineData("MyString")]
+        public void GetBytes_With_Encoding_Test(string str)
+        {
+            var bytes = str.GetBytes(Encoding.ASCII);
+            bytes.ShouldNotBeNull();
+            bytes.Length.ShouldBeGreaterThan(0);
+            Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes).ShouldBe(str);
+        }
+
         private enum MyEnum
         {
             MyValue1,