Class ASN1NumericString

All Implemented Interfaces:
ASN1Encodable, ASN1String, Encodable
Direct Known Subclasses:
DERNumericString

public abstract class ASN1NumericString extends ASN1Primitive implements ASN1String
NumericString object - this is an ascii string of characters {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, }. ASN.1 NUMERIC-STRING object.

This is an ASCII string of characters {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} + space.

See X.680 section 37.2.

Explicit character set escape sequences are not allowed.

  • Method Details

    • getInstance

      public static ASN1NumericString getInstance(Object obj)
      Return a Numeric string from the passed in object
      Parameters:
      obj - an ASN1NumericString or an object that can be converted into one.
      Returns:
      an ASN1NumericString instance, or null
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.
    • getInstance

      public static ASN1NumericString getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject taggedObject, boolean explicit)
      Return an Numeric 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:
      an ASN1NumericString instance, or null.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if the tagged object cannot be converted.
    • getString

      public final 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 final byte[] getOctets()
    • hashCode

      public final int hashCode()
      Specified by:
      hashCode in class ASN1Primitive
    • isNumericString

      public static boolean isNumericString(String str)
      Return true if the string can be represented as a NumericString ('0'..'9', ' ')
      Parameters:
      str - string to validate.
      Returns:
      true if numeric, false otherwise.