title: Parsing Bytes Java Efficiently
body: <p>so I am parsing a KNOWN amount of bytes. However, the first two bytes represent some number, then the next one represents a number that's only one byte, but then possibly the next four all represent one number that's large. Is there a better way to parse the data, other than the way I am.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    switch (i) {
              //Status
              case 2:
                  temp[3] = bytes[i];
                  break;
              case 3:
                  temp[2] = bytes[i];
                  ret.put("Status", byteArrayToInt(temp).toString());
                  break;
              //Voltage
              case 4:
                  temp[3] = bytes[i];
                  break;
              case 5:
                  temp[2] = bytes[i];
                  ret.put("Voltage", byteArrayToInt(temp).toString());
                  break;
              //Lowest Device Signal
              case 6:
                  temp[3] = bytes[i];
                  break;
              case 7:
                  temp[2] = bytes[i];
                  ret.put("Lowest Device Signal", byteArrayToInt(temp).toString());
                  clearBytes(temp);
                  break;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>I am looping through the array of bytes and I have a switch that knows which bytes go to which location, for example I know the 2nd and third bytes go to the Status code. So I take them and combine them into an int. the temp byte array is a byte[] temp = new byte[4].
  Any better way to do this?</p>