[CODEC-340] Fix Base58 custom alphabet handling#437
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Derive a matching decode table from custom Base58 encode tables and use the configured tables when encoding, decoding, and checking the alphabet. Handle leading zero bytes with the first entry of the configured alphabet instead of hard-coding '1'. Reviewed-by: OpenAI Codex Reviewed-by: Anthropic Claude Code
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Summary
Fix
Base58.Builder#setEncodeTable(byte...)so custom Base58 alphabets are used consistently for encoding, decoding, leading zero handling, and alphabet checks.Details
Previously, the builder accepted a custom encode table, but
Base58still used the built-in static encode/decode tables internally. This meant custom alphabets were silently ignored.This change derives a matching decode table from custom 58-byte alphabets, validates alphabet length and duplicate entries, and uses the configured alphabet throughout Base58 operations.
Tests
mvn -q -Dtest=org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base58Test testmvn -q '-Dtest=org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base58*Test' testmvn -q javadoc:javadocmvn -q