Class OctetString

All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Cloneable, Comparable<Variable>, BERSerializable, AssignableFromByteArray, AssignableFromString, Variable
Direct Known Subclasses:
BitString, Opaque, TsmSecurityParameters

public class OctetString extends AbstractVariable implements AssignableFromByteArray, AssignableFromString
The OctetString class represents the SMI type OCTET STRING.
Since:
1.0
Version:
1.8
Author:
Frank Fock
See Also:
  • Constructor Details

    • OctetString

      public OctetString()
      Creates a zero length octet string.
    • OctetString

      public OctetString(byte[] rawValue)
      Creates an octet string from an byte array.
      Parameters:
      rawValue - an array of bytes.
    • OctetString

      public OctetString(byte[] rawValue, int offset, int length)
      Creates an octet string from an byte array.
      Parameters:
      rawValue - an array of bytes.
      offset - the position (zero based) of the first byte to be copied from rawValueinto the new OctetString.
      length - the number of bytes to be copied.
    • OctetString

      public OctetString(byte[] rawValuePrefix, byte[] rawValueSuffix)
      Creates a concatenated octet string from two byte arrays.
      Parameters:
      rawValuePrefix - an array of bytes.
      rawValueSuffix - an array of bytes which will appended to rawValuePrefix to form this new OctetString. If rawValueSuffix is null then the result will be the same as with a zero length suffix array.
      Since:
      2.6.0
    • OctetString

      public OctetString(String stringValue)
      Creates an octet string from a java string.
      Parameters:
      stringValue - a Java string.
    • OctetString

      public OctetString(OctetString other)
      Creates an octet string from another OctetString by cloning its value.
      Parameters:
      other - an OctetString instance.
  • Method Details

    • append

      public void append(byte b)
      Appends a single byte to this octet string.
      Parameters:
      b - a byte value.
    • append

      public void append(byte[] bytes)
      Appends an array of bytes to this octet string.
      Parameters:
      bytes - an array of bytes.
    • append

      public void append(OctetString octetString)
      Appends an octet string.
      Parameters:
      octetString - an OctetString to append to this octet string.
    • append

      public void append(String string)
      Appends the supplied string to this OctetString. Calling this method is identical to append(string.getBytes()).
      Parameters:
      string - a String instance.
    • clear

      public void clear()
      Sets the value of the octet string to a zero length string.
    • encodeBER

      public void encodeBER(OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Encodes a Variable to an OutputStream.
      Specified by:
      encodeBER in interface BERSerializable
      Specified by:
      encodeBER in class AbstractVariable
      Parameters:
      outputStream - an OutputStream.
      Throws:
      IOException - if an error occurs while writing to the stream.
    • decodeBER

      public void decodeBER(BERInputStream inputStream) throws IOException
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Decodes a Variable from an BERInputStream.
      Specified by:
      decodeBER in interface BERSerializable
      Specified by:
      decodeBER in class AbstractVariable
      Parameters:
      inputStream - an BERInputStream containing a BER encoded byte stream.
      Throws:
      IOException - if the stream could not be decoded by using BER rules.
    • getBERLength

      public int getBERLength()
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Returns the length of this Variable in bytes when encoded according to the Basic Encoding Rules (BER).
      Specified by:
      getBERLength in interface BERSerializable
      Specified by:
      getBERLength in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      the BER encoded length of this variable.
    • getSyntax

      public int getSyntax()
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Gets the ASN.1 syntax identifier value of this SNMP variable.
      Specified by:
      getSyntax in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      getSyntax in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      an integer value less than 128 for regular SMI objects and a value greater or equal than 128 for exception values like noSuchObject, noSuchInstance, and endOfMibView.
    • get

      public final byte get(int index)
      Gets the byte at the specified index.
      Parameters:
      index - a zero-based index into the octet string.
      Returns:
      the byte value at the specified index.
      Throws:
      ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - if index < 0 or > length().
    • set

      public final void set(int index, byte b)
      Sets the byte value at the specified index.
      Parameters:
      index - an index value greater or equal 0 and less than length().
      b - the byte value to set.
      Since:
      v1.2
    • hashCode

      public int hashCode()
      Specified by:
      hashCode in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      hashCode in class AbstractVariable
    • equals

      public boolean equals(Object o)
      Specified by:
      equals in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      equals in class AbstractVariable
    • equalsValue

      public boolean equalsValue(byte[] v)
      Checks if the value of this OctetString equals the argument.
      Parameters:
      v - the byte array to compare with this OctetStrings value member.
      Returns:
      Arrays.equals(value, (byte[])v)
      Since:
      2.0
    • compareTo

      public int compareTo(Variable o)
      Specified by:
      compareTo in interface Comparable<Variable>
      Specified by:
      compareTo in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      compareTo in class AbstractVariable
    • substring

      public OctetString substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex)
      Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. The substring begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to the character at index endIndex - 1. Thus the length of the substring is endIndex-beginIndex.
      Parameters:
      beginIndex - the beginning index, inclusive.
      endIndex - the ending index, exclusive.
      Returns:
      the specified substring.
      Since:
      1.3
    • startsWith

      public boolean startsWith(OctetString prefix)
      Tests if this octet string starts with the specified prefix.
      Parameters:
      prefix - the prefix.
      Returns:
      true if the bytes of this octet string up to the length of prefix equal those of prefix.
      Since:
      1.2
    • isPrintable

      public boolean isPrintable()
      Determines whether this octet string contains non ISO control characters only.
      Returns:
      false if this octet string contains any ISO control characters as defined by Character.isISOControl(char) except if these ISO control characters are all whitespace characters as defined by Character.isWhitespace(char) and not '&#92;u001C'-'&#92;u001F'.
    • toString

      public String toString()
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Gets a string representation of the variable.
      Specified by:
      toString in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      toString in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      a string representation of the variable's value.
    • toHexString

      public String toHexString()
    • toHexString

      public String toHexString(char separator)
    • fromHexString

      public static OctetString fromHexString(String hexString)
    • fromHexString

      public static OctetString fromHexString(String hexString, char delimiter)
    • fromString

      public static OctetString fromString(String string, char delimiter, int radix)
    • fromHexStringPairs

      public static OctetString fromHexStringPairs(String hexString)
      Create an OctetString from a hexadecimal string of 2-byte pairs without delimiter. For example: 08A69E
      Parameters:
      hexString - a string of characters a-f,A-F,0-9 with length 2*b, where b is the length of the string in bytes.
      Returns:
      an OctetString instance with the length hexString.length()/2.
      Since:
      2.1
    • fromString

      public static OctetString fromString(String string, int radix)
      Creates an OctetString from a string representation in the specified radix.
      Parameters:
      string - the string representation of an octet string.
      radix - the radix of the string representation.
      Returns:
      the OctetString instance.
      Since:
      1.6
    • toString

      public String toString(char separator, int radix)
    • toString

      public String toString(int radix)
      Returns a string representation of this octet string in the radix specified. There will be no separation characters, but each byte will be represented by round(log(256)/log(radix)) digits.
      Parameters:
      radix - the radix to use in the string representation.
      Returns:
      a string representation of this ocetet string in the specified radix.
      Since:
      1.6
    • toASCII

      public String toASCII(char placeholder)
      Formats the content into a ASCII string. Non-printable characters are replaced by the supplied placeholder character.
      Parameters:
      placeholder - a placeholder character, for example '.'.
      Returns:
      the contents of this octet string as ASCII formatted string.
      Since:
      1.6
    • setValue

      public void setValue(String value)
      Specified by:
      setValue in interface AssignableFromString
    • setValue

      public void setValue(byte[] value)
      Description copied from interface: AssignableFromByteArray
      Sets the value of this object from the supplied byte array.
      Specified by:
      setValue in interface AssignableFromByteArray
      Parameters:
      value - a byte array.
    • getValue

      public byte[] getValue()
    • length

      public final int length()
      Gets the length of the byte string.
      Returns:
      a zero or positive integer value.
    • clone

      public Object clone()
      Description copied from interface: Variable
      Clones this variable. Cloning can be used by the SNMP4J API to better support concurrency by creating a clone for internal processing. The content of this object is independent to the content of the clone. Thus, changes to the clone will have no effect to this object.
      Specified by:
      clone in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      clone in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      a new instance of this Variable with the same value.
    • getBERPayloadLength

      public int getBERPayloadLength()
      Returns the length of the payload of this BERSerializable object in bytes when encoded according to the Basic Encoding Rules (BER).
      Specified by:
      getBERPayloadLength in interface BERSerializable
      Overrides:
      getBERPayloadLength in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      the BER encoded length of this variable.
    • toInt

      public int toInt()
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Returns an integer representation of this variable if such a representation exists.
      Specified by:
      toInt in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      toInt in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      an integer value (if the native representation of this variable would be a long, then the long value will be casted to int).
    • toLong

      public long toLong()
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Returns a long representation of this variable if such a representation exists.
      Specified by:
      toLong in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      toLong in class AbstractVariable
      Returns:
      a long value.
    • mask

      public OctetString mask(OctetString mask)
      Returns a copy of this OctetString where each bit not set in the supplied mask zeros the corresponding bit in the returned OctetString.
      Parameters:
      mask - a mask where the n-th bit corresponds to the n-th bit in the returned OctetString.
      Returns:
      the masked OctetString.
      Since:
      1.7
    • toSubIndex

      public OID toSubIndex(boolean impliedLength)
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Converts the value of this Variable to a (sub-)index value.
      Specified by:
      toSubIndex in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      toSubIndex in class AbstractVariable
      Parameters:
      impliedLength - specifies if the sub-index has an implied length. This parameter applies to variable length variables only (e.g. OctetString and OID). For other variables it has no effect.
      Returns:
      an OID that represents this value as an (sub-)index.
    • fromSubIndex

      public void fromSubIndex(OID subIndex, boolean impliedLength)
      Description copied from class: AbstractVariable
      Sets the value of this Variable from the supplied (sub-)index.
      Specified by:
      fromSubIndex in interface Variable
      Specified by:
      fromSubIndex in class AbstractVariable
      Parameters:
      subIndex - the sub-index OID.
      impliedLength - specifies if the sub-index has an implied length. This parameter applies to variable length variables only (e.g. OctetString and OID). For other variables it has no effect.
    • split

      public static Collection<OctetString> split(OctetString octetString, OctetString delimOctets)
      Splits an OctetString using a set of delimiter characters similar to how a StringTokenizer would do it.
      Parameters:
      octetString - the input string to tokenize.
      delimOctets - a set of delimiter octets.
      Returns:
      a Collection of OctetString instances that contain the tokens.
    • fromByteArray

      public static OctetString fromByteArray(byte[] value)
      Creates an OctetString from an byte array.
      Parameters:
      value - a byte array that is copied into the value of the created OctetString or null.
      Returns:
      an OctetString or null if value is null.
      Since:
      1.7
    • toByteArray

      public byte[] toByteArray()
      Description copied from interface: AssignableFromByteArray
      Returns the value of this object as a byte array.
      Specified by:
      toByteArray in interface AssignableFromByteArray
      Returns:
      a byte array.