return b;
            }
            return Boolean.FALSE;
        } else if (type == byte.class) {
            final Byte b = ByteConversionUtil.toByte(o);
            if (b != null) {
                return b;
            }
            return Byte.valueOf((byte) 0);
        }
        return o;
    }

    /**
     * Removes delimiters.
     *
     * @param value

  }

  public void testConcatenatingHashFunction_makeHash() {
    byte[] md5Hash = Hashing.md5().hashLong(42L).asBytes();
    byte[] murmur3Hash = Hashing.murmur3_32().hashLong(42L).asBytes();
    byte[] combined = new byte[md5Hash.length + murmur3Hash.length];
    ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(combined);
    buffer.put(md5Hash);
    buffer.put(murmur3Hash);

    val utf8 = Buffer().writeUtf8(s)
    val v1 = utf8.readDecimalLong()
    require(utf8.readByte() == '.'.code.toByte())
    val v2 = utf8.readDecimalLong()
    writeVariableLengthLong(v1 * 40 + v2)

    while (!utf8.exhausted()) {
      require(utf8.readByte() == '.'.code.toByte())
      val vN = utf8.readDecimalLong()
      writeVariableLengthLong(vN)
    }
  }

	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to create ErasureStorage: %v", err)
	}
	// Prepare a slice of 5MiB with random data.
	data := make([]byte, 5*humanize.MiByte)
	length := int64(len(data))
	_, err = rand.Read(data)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}

	writers := make([]io.Writer, len(disks))
	for i, disk := range disks {
		if disk == nil {
			continue
		}

    when (this[0]) {
      ','.code.toByte() -> {
        // Consume ','.
        readByte()
        commaFound = true
      }

      ' '.code.toByte(), '\t'.code.toByte() -> {
        readByte()
        // Consume space or tab.
      }

      else -> break@loop
    }
  }
  return commaFound
}

private fun Buffer.startsWith(prefix: Byte): Boolean = !exhausted() && this[0] == prefix

  }

  public void testParanoidHashBytes() {
    HashFn hf =
        new HashFn() {
          @Override
          public byte[] hash(byte[] input, int seed) {
            return murmur3_32(seed).hashBytes(input).asBytes();
          }
        };
    // Murmur3A, MurmurHash3 for x86, 32-bit (MurmurHash3_x86_32)
    // https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher/blob/master/src/main.cpp

    int bits = iterator.next().bits();
    byte[] resultBytes = new byte[bits / 8];
    for (HashCode hashCode : hashCodes) {
      byte[] nextBytes = hashCode.asBytes();
      checkArgument(
          nextBytes.length == resultBytes.length, "All hashcodes must have the same bit length.");
      for (int i = 0; i < nextBytes.length; i++) {
        resultBytes[i] = (byte) (resultBytes[i] * 37 ^ nextBytes[i]);
      }
    }

}

// randomly picks a character and returns its equivalent byte array.
func getRandomByte() []byte {
	const letterBytes = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
	// seeding the random number generator.
	rand.Seed(UTCNow().UnixNano())
	// pick a character randomly.
	return []byte{letterBytes[rand.Intn(len(letterBytes))]}
}

// picks a random byte and repeats it to size bytes.

	// Profile recorded at start of benchmark.
	records map[string][]byte
	stopFn  func() ([]byte, error)
	ext     string
}

// record will record the profile and store it as the base.
func (p *profilerWrapper) record(profileType string, debug int, recordName string) {
	var buf bytes.Buffer
	if p.records == nil {
		p.records = make(map[string][]byte)
	}
	err := pprof.Lookup(profileType).WriteTo(&buf, debug)

private fun isMappedIpv4Address(address: ByteArray): Boolean {
  if (address.size != 16) return false

  for (i in 0 until 10) {
    if (address[i] != 0.toByte()) return false
  }

  if (address[10] != 255.toByte()) return false
  if (address[11] != 255.toByte()) return false

  return true
}

/** Encodes an IPv4 address in canonical form according to RFC 4001. */