public static byte[] bytes(String s) {
    try {
      return s.getBytes(ENCODING);
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
      log.error("UnsupportedEncodingException ", e);
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }
public static byte [ ] bytes ( String s ) { try { return s . getBytes ( ENCODING ) ; } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) { log . error ( "UnsupportedEncodingException " , e ) ; throw new RuntimeException ( e ) ; } }
Gets UTF-8 bytes from the string.

@param s
@return