iaik.smime.ess
Class UnknownSecurityCategory

java.lang.Object
  iaik.smime.ess.SecurityCategory
      iaik.smime.ess.UnknownSecurityCategory

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Type

public class UnknownSecurityCategory
extends SecurityCategory

This class implements any unknown SecurityCategory value. It tries to show as much information as possible about the SecurityCategory value.

An Unknown SecurityCategory value is a SecurityCategory value for which there exists no registered implementation.

When decoding a the SecurityCategory component contained in an ESSSecurityLabel from its ASN.1 representation a descendant of SecurityCategory is created if there exists an registered implementation of the SecurityCategory value identified by the SecurityCategory type OID. If no implementation exists, an UnknownSecurityCategory is returned allowing to get and parse the ASN.1 representation of the SecurityCategory value.

See Also:

SecurityCategory, ESSSecurityLabel

Constructor Summary

UnknownSecurityCategory(ObjectID type)
Creates a new unknown SecurityCategory value from the given object identifier.

Method Summary

void	decode(ASN1Object obj) Reads the ASN.1 representation of the unknown SecurityCategory value.
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj) Compares this SecurityCategory to the specified object.
ObjectID	getType() Returns the SecurityCategory type the unknown SecurityCategory value belongs to.
ASN1Object	toASN1Object() Returns an ASN1Object representing this unknown SecurityCategory value.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns a string that represents the contents of this unknown SecurityCategory value.

Methods inherited from class iaik.smime.ess.SecurityCategory

getName, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UnknownSecurityCategory

public UnknownSecurityCategory(ObjectID type)

Creates a new unknown SecurityCategory value from the given object identifier.

Parameters:

type - the OID identifying the type the unknown SecurityCategory value belongs to

Method Detail

getType

public ObjectID getType()

Returns the SecurityCategory type the unknown SecurityCategory value belongs to.

Specified by:

getType in class SecurityCategory

Returns:

the SecurityCategory type the unknown SecurityCategory belongs to

decode

public void decode(ASN1Object obj)

Reads the ASN.1 representation of the unknown SecurityCategory value.

Parameters:

obj - the ASN1Object representing the unknown SecurityCategory value

toASN1Object

public ASN1Object toASN1Object()

Returns an ASN1Object representing this unknown SecurityCategory value.

Because of implicit tagging this method anytime will return an implicit tagged context specific object (see SecurityCategory for more information.

Returns:

the unknown SecurityCategory value as ASN1Object

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Compares this SecurityCategory to the specified object.

Overrides:

equals in class SecurityCategory

Parameters:

obj - the object to compare this SecurityCategory against.

Returns:

true, if the given object is equal to this SecurityCategory, false otherwise

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns a string that represents the contents of this unknown SecurityCategory value.

Specified by:

toString in class SecurityCategory

Returns:

the string representation