org.bouncycastle.asn1
Class ASN1UTF8String

java.lang.Object
  org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object
      org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive
          org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1UTF8String

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable

Direct Known Subclasses:

DERUTF8String

public abstract class ASN1UTF8String

extends ASN1Primitive

implements ASN1String

Method Summary

static ASN1UTF8String	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject taggedObject, boolean explicit) Return an UTF8 String from a tagged object.
static ASN1UTF8String	getInstance(java.lang.Object obj) Return a UTF8 string from the passed in object.
java.lang.String	getString() Return a Java String representation of this STRING type's content.
int	hashCode()
java.lang.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

Method Detail

getInstance

public static ASN1UTF8String getInstance(java.lang.Object obj)

Return a UTF8 string from the passed in object.

Parameters:

obj - an ASN1UTF8String or an object that can be converted into one.

Returns:

an ASN1UTF8String instance, or null

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.

getInstance

public static ASN1UTF8String getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject taggedObject,
                                         boolean explicit)

Return an UTF8 String from a tagged object.

Parameters:

taggedObject - 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:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the tagged object cannot be converted.

getString

public final java.lang.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 java.lang.String toString()

hashCode

public final int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class ASN1Primitive