iaik.asn1.structures

Class OtherName

java.lang.Object

iaik.asn1.structures.OtherName

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Type

public abstract class OtherName
extends java.lang.Object
implements ASN1Type

This class is the basic implementation for the OtherName type as specified by the X.509 Certificate profile (RFC 3280) to maybe used within a GeneralName. Any class which implements some specific OtherName value must be derived from this class.
An OtherName value may have any ASN.1 representation defined by some specific OtherName type-id object identifier:

 OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
   type-id    OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
   value      [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id }
 }
 

Any class implementing a particular OtherName value has to extend this class and therefore has to implement the methods decode and toASN1Object for translating an OtherName from or to its ASN.1 representation, respectively. The OtherName type-id to be returned by method getTypeId is the one identifying the particular OtherName and shall be used for registering the corresponding class as implemenation for the particular OtherName e.g.:

 public class MyOtherName extends OtherName {
 ...
   // the type id:
   public static final ObjectID TYPE_ID = ...;
 ...
 }
 ...
 // register the implementation:
 OtherName.register(MyOtherName.TYPE_ID, MyOtherName.class);
 

When implementing an OtherName by extending this class please be aware that methods toASN1Object decode have to convert the whole OtherName SEQUENCE (including type-id and value) into respectively from an ASN1Object.

For example, the toASN1Object/decode methods of an OtherName implementation with an UTF8String value may look like:

 public class MyOtherName extends OtherName {
   ...
   // the type id:
   public static final ObjectID TYPE_ID = ...;
   ...
   
   // the value (as String)
   private String value_;
   
   // default constructor (required for dynamic object creation)
   public MyOtherName() {
   }
   
   // Constructor with String value.
   public MyOtherName(String value) {
     if (value == null) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("Value must not be null!");
     }
     value_ = value;
   }
   
   // Decode method
   public void decode(ASN1Object obj) throws CodingException {
     ObjectID typeId = (ObjectID)obj.getComponentAt(0);
     // right type-id?
     if (typeId.equals(TYPE_ID) == false) {
       throw new CodingException("Invalid OtherName type. Expected " + TYPE_ID);
     }
     // OtherName value is context specific tagged
     ASN1Object value = obj.getComponentAt(1);
     if (value.isA(ASN.CON_SPEC) == false) {
       throw new CodingException("Value component must be context-specifix tagged");
     }
     CON_SPEC conSpec = (CON_SPEC)value;
     if (conSpec.getAsnType().getTag() != 0) {
       throw new CodingException("Invalid tag of value component! Must be 0");
     }
     // CON_SPEC value is UTF8String
     value = (ASN1Object)conSpec.getValue();
     if (value.isA(ASN.UTF8String) == false) {
       throw new CodingException("Value must be UTF-8 String");
     }
     value_ = (String)value.getValue();
   }
   
   // Get ASN.1 representation
   public ASN1Object toASN1Object() throws CodingException {
     SEQUENCE asn1OtherName = new SEQUENCE();
     asn1OtherName.addComponent(TYPE_ID);
     asn1OtherName.addComponent(new CON_SPEC(0, new UTF8String(value_)));
     return asn1OtherName;
   }
   
   // Get value as String
   public String getValue() {
     return value_;
   }
   
   // Gets a String representation
   public String toString() {
     StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
     buf.append("\n Type-Id: " + getName());
     buf.append("\n Value: " + value_);
     return buf.toString();
   }
 }
 

If you would register this OtherName implementation as shown above, and then parsing a GeneralName of type OtherName with this specific type-id, you can cast to your MyOtherName class when calling GeneralName.getName():

  // register specific OtherName implementation
  OtherName.register(MyOtherName.TYPE_ID, MyOtherName.class);
  
  ... 
   
  // the GeneralName
  GeneralName generalName = ...;
  // GeneralName of type OtherName?
  if (generalName.getType() == GeneralName.otherName) {
    // get the inherent name
    Object name = generalName.getName();
    if (name instanceof OtherName) {
      OtherName otherName = (OtherName)name;
      // check OtherName type (only required if you have more OtherNames registered)
      if (otherName.getTypeId().equals(MyOtherName.TYPE_ID)) {
        myOtherName = (MyOtherName)otherName;
        String value = myOtherName.getValue();
      }
    } else {
      // no OtherName for the specific type-id is registered
      ASN1Object asn1OtherName = (ASN1Object)name;
    }
  }
 

As you see in this example, if the GeneralName represents an OtherName for which no implementation is registered, GeneralName.getName() returns an ASN1Object. This is necessary because of backwards compatibility to previous versions of IAIK-JCE. For the name reason methods toASN1Object decode have to convert the whole OtherName SEQUENCE (including type-id and value) into respectively from an ASN1Object.

See Also:

GeneralName

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
OtherName()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static OtherName	create(ObjectID typeId) Returns the implementation of the requested OtherName defined through an ASN.1 ObjectID (the OtherName type-id).
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the OtherName type name.
abstract ObjectID	getTypeId() Returns the type OID identifying the type of the OtherName.
static void	register(ObjectID typeId, java.lang.Class cl) Registers a class for implementing a particular OtherName.
abstract java.lang.String	toString() Returns a String representation of the OtherName.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface iaik.asn1.ASN1Type

decode, toASN1Object

Constructor Detail

OtherName

public OtherName()

Method Detail

create

public static OtherName create(ObjectID typeId)
                        throws java.lang.InstantiationException

Returns the implementation of the requested OtherName defined through an ASN.1 ObjectID (the OtherName type-id).

Parameters:

typeId - the OID identifying the OtherName type

Returns:

the implementation of the OtherName identified by the given OtherName type-id

Throws:

java.lang.InstantiationException - if no instance of the requested type could be created

register

public static void register(ObjectID typeId,
            java.lang.Class cl)
                     throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Registers a class for implementing a particular OtherName.

Parameters:

typeId - the OID identifying the OtherName type

cl - the class which implements the OtherName in mind

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

getTypeId

public abstract ObjectID getTypeId()

Returns the type OID identifying the type of the OtherName.

Returns:

the type OID identifying the type of the OtherName this class implements

toString

public abstract java.lang.String toString()

Returns a String representation of the OtherName.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a String representation of the OtherName

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns the OtherName type name.

Returns:

the name of the OtherName