Constructor Detail

• DERUTF8String

  public DERUTF8String​(java.lang.String string)

  Basic constructor

  Parameters:

  string - the string to be carried in the UTF8String object,

Method Detail

• getInstance

  public static DERUTF8String getInstance​(java.lang.Object obj)

  Return an UTF8 string from the passed in object.

  Parameters:

  obj - a DERUTF8String or an object that can be converted into one.

  Returns:

  a DERUTF8String instance, or null

  Throws:

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.

• getInstance

  public static DERUTF8String getInstance​(ASN1TaggedObject obj,
                                          boolean explicit)

  Return an UTF8 String from a tagged object.

  Parameters:

  obj - the tagged object holding the object we want

  explicit - true if the object is meant to be explicitly tagged false otherwise.

  Returns:

  a DERUTF8String instance, or null

  Throws:

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the tagged object cannot be converted.

• getString

  public java.lang.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 java.lang.String toString()

  Overrides:

  toString in class java.lang.Object

• hashCode

  public int hashCode()

  Specified by:

  hashCode in class ASN1Primitive