Package org.bouncycastle.asn1

Class DERUTF8String

java.lang.Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive

org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERUTF8String

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable

public class DERUTF8String
extends ASN1Primitive
implements ASN1String

DER UTF8String object.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DERUTF8String(String string)	Basic constructor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static DERUTF8String	getInstance(Object obj)	Return an UTF8 string from the passed in object.
static DERUTF8String	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit)	Return an UTF8 String from a tagged object.
String	getString()	Return a Java String representation of this STRING type's content.
int	hashCode()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive

encodeTo, encodeTo, equals, equals, equals, fromByteArray, toASN1Primitive

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

getEncoded, getEncoded, hasEncodedTagValue

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

DERUTF8String

public DERUTF8String(String string)

Basic constructor

Parameters:

string - the string to be carried in the UTF8String object,

Method Details

getInstance

public static DERUTF8String getInstance(Object obj)

Return an UTF8 string from the passed in object.

Parameters:

obj - a DERUTF8String or an object that can be converted into one.

Returns:

a DERUTF8String instance, or null

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.

getInstance

public static DERUTF8String getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj,
 boolean explicit)

Return an UTF8 String from a tagged object.

Parameters:

obj - the tagged object holding the object we want

explicit - true if the object is meant to be explicitly tagged false otherwise.

Returns:

a DERUTF8String instance, or null

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the tagged object cannot be converted.

getString

public String getString()

Description copied from interface: ASN1String

Return a Java String representation of this STRING type's content.

Specified by:

getString in interface ASN1String

Returns:

a Java String representation of this STRING.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class ASN1Primitive