When decoding concatenated PDUs from a file, is it possible to know which one is invalid and then skip that particular PDU?

Following is sample code that illustrates how you can process multiple PDUs and skip invalid PDUs. Decoding is done in two passes. In the first pass, the entire BER-encoded PDU is buffered into byte[] using the readTLV() method of the com.oss.util.BERTool.BERReader utility class. In the second pass, the valid PDU is decoded. If errors occur during the second pass, the code simply discards the incorrectly encoded PDU that is buffered into byte[]:

BERTool.BERReader berReader = new BERTool.BERReader();
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream("encoding.ber");
try (InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(file, 4096)) {
    while (in.available() > 0) {
        // Read the encoded PDU into buffer 
        // and advance input stream to the 
        // beginning of the next encoded PDU.        
        byte[] berMessage = berReader.readTLV(in);
        try {
            ByteBuffer in1 = ByteBuffer.wrap(berMessage);
            AbstractData data = coder.decode(in1, new SomePDU());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // Report that PDU cannot be decoded 
            // due to some error.
        }
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    // Fatal error. BER encoding has invalid     
    // tag/length header. Error recovery is 
    // not possible. 
}

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