The Tenfold Error in Language Choice

Sometimes I just know I must have missed some convienience method..

static String makeEncodedValue(String value) {
   try {
       MessageDigest digester =
               MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
       byte[] digest = digester.digest(
               value.getBytes());

       StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
       for (int i=0; i < digest.length; i++) {
           int nValue = ((int) digest[i]) & 0xFF;
           buf.append(Integer.toHexString(nValue));
       }
       return buf.toString();
   } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
       // ... must.. do.. error.. recovery..
   }
   return value;
}

Oh..

import md5

def makeEncodedValue(value):
    return md5.md5(value).hexdigest()

Time for coffee.