Package com.oss.metadata

Class Fields

java.lang.Object

com.oss.metadata.Fields

public abstract class Fields
extends Object

The Fields class represents the properties of a list of fields of a structured ASN.1 type, such as SEQUENCE or SET.

Since:

ASN.1/Java 2.1

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Fields()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract int	count()	Return a count of the number of fields in the FieldInfo array.
abstract FieldInfo	getFieldInfo(int i)	Return the FieldInfo for the field at the index, counting from zero.
FieldInfo	getFieldInfo(String name)	Returns the FieldInfo for the field with the specified name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

Fields

public Fields()

Method Details

count

public abstract int count()
                   throws MetadataException

Return a count of the number of fields in the FieldInfo array.

Returns:

number of fields.

Throws:

MetadataException - if attempt to resolve the weak reference fails: class could not be found or typeInfo was not available.

getFieldInfo

public abstract FieldInfo getFieldInfo(int i)
                                throws MetadataException

Return the FieldInfo for the field at the index, counting from zero.

Parameters:

i - field index.

Returns:

i-th FieldInfo, where 0 is the first index.

Throws:

MetadataException - if attempt to resolve the weak reference fails: class could not be found or typeInfo was not available.

getFieldInfo

public FieldInfo getFieldInfo(String name)
                       throws MetadataException

Returns the FieldInfo for the field with the specified name.

Parameters:

name - field name.

Returns:

FieldInfo with the specified name, or null if no field with that name was found

Throws:

MetadataException - if attempt to resolve the weak reference fails: class could not be found or typeInfo was not available.