org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509

Class X509NameEntryConverter

public abstract class X509NameEntryConverter extends Object

It turns out that the number of standard ways the fields in a DN should be encoded into their ASN.1 counterparts is rapidly approaching the number of machines on the internet. By default the X509Name class will produce UTF8Strings in line with the current recommendations (RFC 3280).

An example of an encoder look like below:

 public class X509DirEntryConverter
     extends X509NameEntryConverter
 {
     public DERObject getConvertedValue(
         DERObjectIdentifier  oid,
         String               value)
     {
         if (str.length() != 0 && str.charAt(0) == '#')
         {
             return convertHexEncoded(str, 1);
         }
         if (oid.equals(EmailAddress))
         {
             return new DERIA5String(str);
         }
         else if (canBePrintable(str))
         {
             return new DERPrintableString(str);
         }
         else if (canBeUTF8(str))
         {
             return new DERUTF8String(str);
         }
         else
         {
             return new DERBMPString(str);
         }
     }
 }
   
Method Summary
protected booleancanBePrintable(String str)
return true if the passed in String can be represented without loss as a PrintableString, false otherwise.
protected DERObjectconvertHexEncoded(String str, int off)
Convert an inline encoded hex string rendition of an ASN.1 object back into its corresponding ASN.1 object.
abstract DERObjectgetConvertedValue(DERObjectIdentifier oid, String value)
Convert the passed in String value into the appropriate ASN.1 encoded object.

Method Detail

canBePrintable

protected boolean canBePrintable(String str)
return true if the passed in String can be represented without loss as a PrintableString, false otherwise.

convertHexEncoded

protected DERObject convertHexEncoded(String str, int off)
Convert an inline encoded hex string rendition of an ASN.1 object back into its corresponding ASN.1 object.

Parameters: str the hex encoded object off the index at which the encoding starts

Returns: the decoded object

getConvertedValue

public abstract DERObject getConvertedValue(DERObjectIdentifier oid, String value)
Convert the passed in String value into the appropriate ASN.1 encoded object.

Parameters: oid the oid associated with the value in the DN. value the value of the particular DN component.

Returns: the ASN.1 equivalent for the value.