X500Principal

Defines a constant for the canonical string format of distinguished names.

Defines a constant for the RFC 1779 string format of distinguished names.

Defines a constant for the RFC 2253 string format of distinguished names.

Creates a new X500Principal from a given ASN.1 DER encoding of a distinguished name.

Creates a new X500Principal from a given ASN.1 DER encoding of a distinguished name.

Creates a new X500Principal from a string representation of a distinguished name.

Compares this instance with the specified object and indicates if they are equal. In order to be equal, o must represent the same object as this instance using a class-specific comparison. The general contract is that this comparison should be reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. Also, no object reference other than null is equal to null.

The default implementation returns true only if this == o. See Writing a correct equals method if you intend implementing your own equals method.

The general contract for the equals and hashCode() methods is that if equals returns true for any two objects, then hashCode() must return the same value for these objects. This means that subclasses of Object usually override either both methods or neither of them.

Returns an ASN.1 DER-encoded representation of the distinguished name contained in this X.500 principal.

Returns a human-readable string representation of the distinguished name contained in this X.500 principal.

Returns a string representation of the distinguished name contained in this X.500 principal. The format of the representation can be chosen. Valid arguments are RFC1779, RFC2253, and CANONICAL. The representations are specified in RFC 1779 and RFC 2253, respectively. The canonical form is based on RFC 2253, but adds some canonicalizing operations like removing leading and trailing whitespace, lower-casing the whole name, and bringing it into a normalized Unicode representation.

Returns an integer hash code for this object. By contract, any two objects for which equals(Object) returns true must return the same hash code value. This means that subclasses of Object usually override both methods or neither method.

Note that hash values must not change over time unless information used in equals comparisons also changes.

See Writing a correct hashCode method if you intend implementing your own hashCode method.

Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable description of this object. Subclasses are encouraged to override this method and provide an implementation that takes into account the object's type and data. The default implementation is equivalent to the following expression:

   getClass().getName() + '@' + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())

See Writing a useful toString method if you intend implementing your own toString method.