Problems with torrent serialization(IE, error when running new Torrent(bytes, seed))

[dessalines]

I've been testing out serializing and deserializing torrents with methods I found here, but I keep getting an error upon deserialization(IE, running new Torrent(bytes, seed):

com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.InvalidBEncodingException: Unknown indicator '99'
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecode(BDecoder.java:142)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecodeMap(BDecoder.java:278)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecode(BDecoder.java:140)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecodeMap(BDecoder.java:280)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecode(BDecoder.java:140)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.bcodec.BDecoder.bdecode(BDecoder.java:88)
    at com.turn.ttorrent.common.Torrent.<init>(Torrent.java:137)

Here's how I'm using it:
Serializing:

public static String serializeTorrentFile(Torrent t) {

        String out = null;
        try {
            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            t.save(baos);

            out = baos.toString("UTF-8");
            baos.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return out;
    }

Deserializing:

    public static Torrent deserializeTorrentFile(String data) {
        Torrent t = null;
        try {
            byte[] b = data.getBytes("UTF-8");
            t = new Torrent(b, false); // ERROR COMES ON THIS LINE


        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return t;
    }

[mpetazzoni]

I don't think you can reliably convert and read back the binary torrent data as a UTF-8 encoded String. Does it work when you use byte[] ?

See https://github.com/mpetazzoni/ttorrent/blob/master/core/src/main/java/com/turn/ttorrent/common/Torrent.java#L493

[dessalines]

That did it @mpetazzoni, if I keep it as a byte[] , but not as a UTF-8 string.