Class 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 Details

    • getInstance

      public static ASN1UniversalString getInstance(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:
      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:
      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