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PolicyQualifierInfo.java

/*
 * @(#)PolicyQualifierInfo.java	1.11 03/12/19
 *
 * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package java.security.cert;

import java.io.IOException;

import sun.misc.HexDumpEncoder;
import sun.security.util.DerValue;

/**
 * An immutable policy qualifier represented by the ASN.1 PolicyQualifierInfo 
 * structure.
 *
 * <p>The ASN.1 definition is as follows:
 * <p><pre>
 *   PolicyQualifierInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
 *        policyQualifierId       PolicyQualifierId,
 *        qualifier               ANY DEFINED BY policyQualifierId }
 * </pre>
 * <p>
 * A certificate policies extension, if present in an X.509 version 3 
 * certificate, contains a sequence of one or more policy information terms,
 * each of which consists of an object identifier (OID) and optional
 * qualifiers. In an end-entity certificate, these policy information terms
 * indicate the policy under which the certificate has been issued and the 
 * purposes for which the certificate may be used. In a CA certificate, these 
 * policy information terms limit the set of policies for certification paths 
 * which include this certificate.
 * <p>
 * A <code>Set</code> of <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code> objects are returned 
 * by the {@link PolicyNode#getPolicyQualifiers PolicyNode.getPolicyQualifiers} 
 * method. This allows applications with specific policy requirements to 
 * process and validate each policy qualifier. Applications that need to 
 * process policy qualifiers should explicitly set the 
 * <code>policyQualifiersRejected</code> flag to false (by calling the 
 * {@link PKIXParameters#setPolicyQualifiersRejected 
 * PKIXParameters.setPolicyQualifiersRejected} method) before validating 
 * a certification path.
 *
 * <p>Note that the PKIX certification path validation algorithm specifies
 * that any policy qualifier in a certificate policies extension that is 
 * marked critical must be processed and validated. Otherwise the 
 * certification path must be rejected. If the 
 * <code>policyQualifiersRejected</code> flag is set to false, it is up to 
 * the application to validate all policy qualifiers in this manner in order 
 * to be PKIX compliant.
 *
 * <p><b>Concurrent Access</b>
 *
 * <p>All <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code> objects must be immutable and
 * thread-safe. That is, multiple threads may concurrently invoke the
 * methods defined in this class on a single <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code> 
 * object (or more than one) with no ill effects. Requiring 
 * <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code> objects to be immutable and thread-safe 
 * allows them to be passed around to various pieces of code without 
 * worrying about coordinating access.
 *
 * @author 	seth proctor
 * @author 	Sean Mullan
 * @version 	1.11 12/19/03
 * @since 	1.4
 */
public class PolicyQualifierInfo {

    private byte [] mEncoded;
    private String mId;
    private byte [] mData;
    private String pqiString;

    /**
     * Creates an instance of <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code> from the
     * encoded bytes. The encoded byte array is copied on construction.
     *
     * @param encoded a byte array containing the qualifier in DER encoding
     * @exception IOException thrown if the byte array does not represent a
     * valid and parsable policy qualifier
     */
    public PolicyQualifierInfo(byte[] encoded) throws IOException {
	mEncoded = (byte[]) encoded.clone();
		
	DerValue val = new DerValue(mEncoded);
	if (val.tag != DerValue.tag_Sequence)
	    throw new IOException("Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo");

	mId = (val.data.getDerValue()).getOID().toString();
	byte [] tmp = val.data.toByteArray();
	if (tmp == null) {
	    mData = null;
	} else {
	    mData = new byte[tmp.length];
	    System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, mData, 0, tmp.length);
	}
    }

    /**
     * Returns the <code>policyQualifierId</code> field of this 
     * <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code>. The <code>policyQualifierId</code>
     * is an Object Identifier (OID) represented by a set of nonnegative 
     * integers separated by periods.
     *
     * @return the OID (never <code>null</code>)
     */
    public final String getPolicyQualifierId() {
	return mId;
    }
	
    /**
     * Returns the ASN.1 DER encoded form of this 
     * <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code>.
     *
     * @return the ASN.1 DER encoded bytes (never <code>null</code>).
     * Note that a copy is returned, so the data is cloned each time 
     * this method is called.
     */
    public final byte[] getEncoded() {
	return (byte[]) mEncoded.clone();
    }
	
    /**
     * Returns the ASN.1 DER encoded form of the <code>qualifier</code> 
     * field of this <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code>.
     *
     * @return the ASN.1 DER encoded bytes of the <code>qualifier</code>
     * field. Note that a copy is returned, so the data is cloned each 
     * time this method is called.
     */
    public final byte[] getPolicyQualifier() {
	return (mData == null ? null : (byte[]) mData.clone());
    }

    /**
     * Return a printable representation of this 
     * <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code>.
     *
     * @return a <code>String</code> describing the contents of this
     *         <code>PolicyQualifierInfo</code>
     */
    public String toString() {
	if (pqiString != null)
	    return pqiString;
        HexDumpEncoder enc = new HexDumpEncoder();
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        sb.append("PolicyQualifierInfo: [\n");
        sb.append("  qualifierID: " + mId + "\n");
        sb.append("  qualifier: " + 
	    (mData == null ? "null" : enc.encodeBuffer(mData)) + "\n");
        sb.append("]");
	pqiString = sb.toString();
	return pqiString;
    }
}