PROBLEM WITH MY CLA- DEPRECATED CODE

Question

Hi all,
I really need some help to sort out my small class which generates a random string. Here is the code:
package project_gui;
import java.util.Random;
//Random string generator class
        public class randomString {
                private static Random rn = new Random();
                public randomString()
                public static int rand(int lo, int hi)
                        int n = hi - lo + 1;
                        int i = rn.nextInt() % n;
                        if (i < 0)
                                i = -i;
                        return lo + i;
                public String randomstring(int lo, int hi)
                        int n = rand(lo, hi);
                        byte b[] = new byte[n];
                        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
                                b[i] = (byte)rand('a', 'z');
                        return new String(b, 0);
                public String randomstring()
                        return randomstring(1, 12);
        }The error I get is:
project_gui/randomString.java:28: warning: String(byte[],int) in java.lang.String
has been deprecated
          return new String(b, 0);I'm already looked through the API to try and find an alternative way of doing it, but I'm an inexperienced programmer and so I'm not sure what to do.
Please help!!!

Answer 1

JDK1.4.2 API docs:
I believe it's:
old
String(byte[] ascii, int hibyte)
          Deprecated. This method does not properly convert bytes into characters. As of JDK
1.1, the preferred way to do this is via the String constructors that take a charset name or
that use the platform's default charset.
new
String(byte[] bytes, String charsetName)
          Constructs a new String by decoding the specified array of bytes using the
specified charset.Try looking under class Charset for more details. I have not used these constructors myself though.