netscape.ldap.ber.stream
Class BERCharacterString

java.lang.Object
  netscape.ldap.ber.stream.BERElement
      netscape.ldap.ber.stream.BERCharacterString

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BERNumericString, BERPrintableString, BERVisibleString

public abstract class BERCharacterString

extends BERElement

This is an abstract base class for character string types.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class netscape.ldap.ber.stream.BERElement

ANY, APPLICATION, BITSTRING, BOOLEAN, CHOICE, CONSTRUCTED, CONTEXT, ENUMERATED, EOC, EXOP_REQ_OID, EXOP_REQ_VALUE, EXOP_RES_OID, EXOP_RES_VALUE, GENERALSTRING, GRAPHICSTRING, IA5STRING, INTEGER, MRA_DNATTRS, MRA_OID, MRA_TYPE, MRA_VALUE, NULL, NUMERICSTRING, OBJECTID, OCTETSTRING, PRIMITIVE, PRINTABLESTRING, PRIVATE, REAL, SASLCONTEXT, SEQUENCE, SET, SK_MATCHRULE, SK_REVERSE, SR_ATTRTYPE, TAG, TELETEXSTRING, UNIVERSAL, UTCTIME, VIDEOTEXSTRING, VISIBLESTRING

Constructor Summary

BERCharacterString()
Constructs a character string element containing a buffer.

BERCharacterString(BERTagDecoder decoder, InputStream stream, int[] bytes_read)
Constructs a character string element from an input stream (for constructed encoding)

BERCharacterString(byte[] buffer)
Constructs a character string element from a byte array.

BERCharacterString(InputStream stream, int[] bytes_read)
Constructs a character string element from an input stream (for primitive encoding)

BERCharacterString(String string)
Constructs a character string element containing buffer.

Method Summary

abstract int	getType() Gets the element type.
String	getValue() Gets the element value.
abstract String	toString() Gets the string representation.
void	write(OutputStream stream) Writes BER to stream.

Methods inherited from class netscape.ldap.ber.stream.BERElement

byteToHexString, getElement, readLengthOctets, sendDefiniteLength

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BERCharacterString

public BERCharacterString()

Constructs a character string element containing a buffer.

BERCharacterString

public BERCharacterString(String string)

Constructs a character string element containing buffer.

Parameters:

string - a string value

BERCharacterString

public BERCharacterString(byte[] buffer)

Constructs a character string element from a byte array.

Parameters:

buffer - buffer containing UTF8 data

BERCharacterString

public BERCharacterString(BERTagDecoder decoder,
                          InputStream stream,
                          int[] bytes_read)
                   throws IOException

Constructs a character string element from an input stream (for constructed encoding)

Parameters:

stream - input stream

bytes_read - array of 1 int, incremented by number of bytes read

Throws:

IOException - failed to construct

BERCharacterString

public BERCharacterString(InputStream stream,
                          int[] bytes_read)
                   throws IOException

Constructs a character string element from an input stream (for primitive encoding)

Parameters:

stream - source

bytes_read - array of 1 int, incremented by number of bytes read

Throws:

IOException - failed to construct

Method Detail

write

public void write(OutputStream stream)
           throws IOException

Writes BER to stream.

Specified by:

write in class BERElement

Parameters:

stream - output stream

Returns:

bytes written to stream.

Throws:

IOException

getValue

public String getValue()

Gets the element value.

Returns:

element value

getType

public abstract int getType()

Gets the element type.

Specified by:

getType in class BERElement

Returns:

element type

toString

public abstract String toString()

Gets the string representation.

Specified by:

toString in class BERElement

Returns:

string representation.