org.bouncycastle.asn1

Class ASN1UniversalString

java.lang.Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1UniversalString

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable

Direct Known Subclasses:

DERUniversalString

public abstract class ASN1UniversalString
extends ASN1Primitive
implements ASN1String

ASN.1 UniversalString object - encodes UNICODE (ISO 10646) characters using 32-bit format. In Java we have no way of representing this directly so we rely on byte arrays to carry these.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static ASN1UniversalString	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject taggedObject, boolean explicit) Return a Universal String from a tagged object.
static ASN1UniversalString	getInstance(java.lang.Object obj) Return a Universal String from the passed in object.
byte[]	getOctets()
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 ASN1UniversalString getInstance(java.lang.Object obj)

Return a Universal String from the passed in object.

Parameters:

obj - an ASN1UniversalString or an object that can be converted into one.

Returns:

an ASN1UniversalString instance, or null

Throws:

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

getInstance

public static ASN1UniversalString getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject taggedObject,
                                              boolean explicit)

Return a Universal 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 ASN1UniversalString 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()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

getOctets

public final byte[] getOctets()

hashCode

public final int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class ASN1Primitive