Package org.bouncycastle.asn1

Class DERPrintableString

java.lang.Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1PrintableString

org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERPrintableString

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable

public class DERPrintableString
extends ASN1PrintableString

DER PrintableString object.

X.680 section 37.4 defines PrintableString character codes as ASCII subset of following characters:

Latin capital letters: 'A' .. 'Z'

Latin small letters: 'a' .. 'z' Digits: '0'..'9' Space Apostrophe: '\'' Left parenthesis: '(' Right parenthesis: ')' Plus sign: '+' Comma: ',' Hyphen-minus: '-' Full stop: '.' Solidus: '/' Colon: ':' Equals sign: '=' Question mark: '?'

Explicit character set escape sequences are not allowed.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DERPrintableString(java.lang.String string)	Basic constructor - this does not validate the string
DERPrintableString(java.lang.String string, boolean validate)	Constructor with optional validation.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1PrintableString

getInstance, getInstance, getOctets, getString, hashCode, isPrintableString, 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 Detail

DERPrintableString

public DERPrintableString(java.lang.String string)

Basic constructor - this does not validate the string

DERPrintableString

public DERPrintableString(java.lang.String string,
                          boolean validate)

Constructor with optional validation.

Parameters:

string - the base string to wrap.

validate - whether or not to check the string.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if validate is true and the string contains characters that should not be in a PrintableString.