Package org.bouncycastle.asn1

Class DERVisibleString

java.lang.Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive

org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERVisibleString

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable

public class DERVisibleString
extends ASN1Primitive
implements ASN1String

DER VisibleString object encoding ISO 646 (ASCII) character code points 32 to 126.

Explicit character set escape sequences are not allowed.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DERVisibleString(String string)	Basic constructor

Method Summary

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

DERVisibleString

public DERVisibleString(String string)

Basic constructor

Parameters:

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

Method Details

getInstance

public static DERVisibleString getInstance(Object obj)

Return a Visible String from the passed in object.

Parameters:

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

Returns:

a DERVisibleString instance, or null

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.

getInstance

public static DERVisibleString getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj,
 boolean explicit)

Return a Visible 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 DERVisibleString 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

getOctets

public byte[] getOctets()

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class ASN1Primitive