Class ASN1TaggedObject

All Implemented Interfaces:
ASN1Encodable, ASN1TaggedObjectParser, InMemoryRepresentable, Encodable
Direct Known Subclasses:
BERTaggedObject, DERTaggedObject, DLTaggedObject

public abstract class ASN1TaggedObject extends ASN1Primitive implements ASN1TaggedObjectParser
ASN.1 TaggedObject - in ASN.1 notation this is any object preceded by a [n] where n is some number - these are assumed to follow the construction rules (as with sequences).
  • Constructor Details

    • ASN1TaggedObject

      public ASN1TaggedObject(boolean explicit, int tagNo, ASN1Encodable obj)
      Create a tagged object with the style given by the value of explicit.

      If the object implements ASN1Choice the tag style will always be changed to explicit in accordance with the ASN.1 encoding rules.

      Parameters:
      explicit - true if the object is explicitly tagged.
      tagNo - the tag number for this object.
      obj - the tagged object.
  • Method Details

    • getInstance

      public static ASN1TaggedObject getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit)
    • getInstance

      public static ASN1TaggedObject getInstance(Object obj)
    • hashCode

      public int hashCode()
      Specified by:
      hashCode in class ASN1Primitive
    • getTagNo

      public int getTagNo()
      Return the tag number associated with this object.
      Specified by:
      getTagNo in interface ASN1TaggedObjectParser
      Returns:
      the tag number.
    • isExplicit

      public boolean isExplicit()
      return whether or not the object may be explicitly tagged.

      Note: if the object has been read from an input stream, the only time you can be sure if isExplicit is returning the true state of affairs is if it returns false. An implicitly tagged object may appear to be explicitly tagged, so you need to understand the context under which the reading was done as well, see getObject below.

    • isEmpty

      public boolean isEmpty()
      Deprecated.
      Will be removed (always returns false).
    • getObject

      public ASN1Primitive getObject()
      Return whatever was following the tag.

      Note: tagged objects are generally context dependent if you're trying to extract a tagged object you should be going via the appropriate getInstance method.

    • getObjectParser

      public ASN1Encodable getObjectParser(int tag, boolean isExplicit) throws IOException
      Return the object held in this tagged object as a parser assuming it has the type of the passed in tag. If the object doesn't have a parser associated with it, the base object is returned.
      Specified by:
      getObjectParser in interface ASN1TaggedObjectParser
      Parameters:
      tag - the primitive tag value for the object tagged originally.
      isExplicit - true if the tagging was done explicitly.
      Returns:
      a parser for the tagged object.
      Throws:
      IOException - if a parser cannot be constructed.
    • getLoadedObject

      public ASN1Primitive getLoadedObject()
      Description copied from interface: InMemoryRepresentable
      Get the in-memory representation of the ASN.1 object.
      Specified by:
      getLoadedObject in interface InMemoryRepresentable
      Returns:
      an ASN1Primitive representing the loaded object.
    • toString

      public String toString()
      Overrides:
      toString in class Object