CODEC-144 BaseNCodec: encodeToString and encodeAsString methods are identical

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/trunk@1789156 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: sebbASF

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
     <release version="1.11" date="2017-MM-DD" description="Feature and fix release.">
       <!-- The first attribute below should be the issue id; makes it easier to navigate in the IDE outline -->
 
+      <action issue="CODEC-144" dev="sebb" type="fix">BaseNCodec: encodeToString and encodeAsString methods are identical</action>
       <action issue="CODEC-232" dev="sebb" type="fix">URLCodec is neither immutable nor threadsafe</action>
       <action issue="CODEC-231" dev="sebb" type="fix">StringUtils.equals(CharSequence cs1, CharSequence cs2) can fail with String Index OBE</action>
       <action issue="CODEC-230" dev="sebb" type="fix">URLCodec.WWW_FORM_URL should be private</action>

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BaseNCodec.java

@@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ public String encodeToString(final byte[] pArray) {
      *
      * @param pArray a byte array containing binary data
      * @return String containing only character data in the appropriate alphabet.
+     * @since 1.5
+     * This is a duplicate of {@link #encodeToString(byte[])}; it was merged during refactoring.
     */
     public String encodeAsString(final byte[] pArray){
         return StringUtils.newStringUtf8(encode(pArray));