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+// --- BEGIN COPYRIGHT BLOCK ---
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+// with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+// 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+//
+// (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
+// All rights reserved.
+// --- END COPYRIGHT BLOCK ---
+package netscape.security.x509;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import netscape.security.util.*;
+
+/**
+ * Abstract class that converts a Ldap DN String to an X500Name, RDN or AVA
+ * and vice versa, except the string is a java string in unicode.
+ *
+ * @author Lily Hsiao, Slava Galperin at Netscape Communications, Inc.
+ */
+
+public abstract class LdapDNStrConverter
+{
+ //
+ // public parsing methods.
+ //
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a Ldap DN string to a X500Name object.
+ *
+ * @param dn a Ldap DN String.
+ *
+ * @return an X500Name object for the Ldap DN String.
+ */
+ public abstract X500Name parseDN(String dn)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Like parseDN with a specified DER encoding order for Directory Strings.
+ */
+ public abstract X500Name parseDN(String dn, byte[] tags)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a Ldap DN string to a RDN object.
+ *
+ * @param rdn a Ldap DN String
+ *
+ * @return an RDN object.
+ */
+ public abstract RDN parseRDN(String rdn)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Like parseRDN with a specified DER encoding order for Directory Strings.
+ */
+ public abstract RDN parseRDN(String rdn, byte[] tags)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a Ldap DN string to a AVA object.
+ *
+ * @param ava a Ldap DN string.
+ * @return an AVA object.
+ */
+ public abstract AVA parseAVA(String ava)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Like parseAVA with a specified DER encoding order for Directory Strings.
+ */
+ public abstract AVA parseAVA(String rdn, byte[] tags)
+ throws IOException;
+
+ //
+ // public encoding methods.
+ //
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a X500Name object to a Ldap dn string.
+ *
+ * @param dn an X500Name object.
+ * @return a Ldap DN String.
+ */
+ public abstract String encodeDN(X500Name dn) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Converts an RDN object to a Ldap dn string.
+ *
+ * @param rdn an RDN object.
+ * @return a Ldap dn string.
+ */
+ public abstract String encodeRDN(RDN rdn) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Converts an AVA object to a Ldap dn string.
+ *
+ * @param ava An AVA object.
+ * @return A Ldap dn string.
+ */
+ public abstract String encodeAVA(AVA ava) throws IOException;
+
+ //
+ // public static methods
+ //
+
+ /**
+ * Gets a global default Ldap DN String converter.
+ * Currently it is LdapV3DNStrConverter object using the default
+ * X500NameAttrMap and accepts unknown OIDs.
+ *
+ * @see netscape.security.x509.LdapV3DNStrConverter
+ *
+ * @return The global default LdapDNStrConverter instance.
+ */
+ public static LdapDNStrConverter getDefault()
+ {
+ return defaultConverter;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Set the global default LdapDNStrConverter object.
+ *
+ * @param defConverter A LdapDNStrConverter object to become
+ * the global default.
+ */
+ public static void setDefault(LdapDNStrConverter defConverter)
+ {
+ if (defConverter == null)
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+ "The default Ldap DN String converter cannot be set to null.");
+ defaultConverter = defConverter;
+ }
+
+ //
+ // private static variables
+ //
+
+ private static LdapDNStrConverter
+ defaultConverter = new LdapV3DNStrConverter();
+}