Oid JDK 1.6)

Description

public class Oid

This class represents Universal Object Identifiers (Oids) and their associated operations.

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Constructors

public Oid (byte[] data) throws GSSException

Creates an Oid object from its ASN.1 DER encoding.

public Oid (InputStream derOid) throws GSSException

Creates an Oid object from its ASN.1 DER encoding.

public Oid (String strOid) throws GSSException

Constructs an Oid object from a string representation of its integer components.

Methods

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public boolean containedIn (Oid oids)

A utility method to test if this Oid value is contained within the supplied Oid array.

public boolean equals (Object other)

Tests if two Oid objects represent the same Object identifier value.

Tests if two Oid objects represent the same Object identifier
value.
Returns: true if the two Oid objects represent the same value, false otherwise.
Parameters:
- other - the Oid object that has to be compared to this one

public byte getDER () throws GSSException

Returns the full ASN.1 DER encoding for this oid object, which includes the tag and length.

pack-privatestatic Oid getInstance (String strOid)

Only for calling by initializators used with declarations.

public int hashCode ()

Returns a hashcode value for this Oid.

public String toString ()

Returns a string representation of the oid's integer components in dot separated notation.