Source file src/pkg/encoding/asn1/common.go
1 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5 package asn1
6
7 import (
8 "reflect"
9 "strconv"
10 "strings"
11 )
12
13 // ASN.1 objects have metadata preceding them:
14 // the tag: the type of the object
15 // a flag denoting if this object is compound or not
16 // the class type: the namespace of the tag
17 // the length of the object, in bytes
18
19 // Here are some standard tags and classes
20
21 const (
22 tagBoolean = 1
23 tagInteger = 2
24 tagBitString = 3
25 tagOctetString = 4
26 tagOID = 6
27 tagEnum = 10
28 tagUTF8String = 12
29 tagSequence = 16
30 tagSet = 17
31 tagPrintableString = 19
32 tagT61String = 20
33 tagIA5String = 22
34 tagUTCTime = 23
35 tagGeneralizedTime = 24
36 tagGeneralString = 27
37 )
38
39 const (
40 classUniversal = 0
41 classApplication = 1
42 classContextSpecific = 2
43 classPrivate = 3
44 )
45
46 type tagAndLength struct {
47 class, tag, length int
48 isCompound bool
49 }
50
51 // ASN.1 has IMPLICIT and EXPLICIT tags, which can be translated as "instead
52 // of" and "in addition to". When not specified, every primitive type has a
53 // default tag in the UNIVERSAL class.
54 //
55 // For example: a BIT STRING is tagged [UNIVERSAL 3] by default (although ASN.1
56 // doesn't actually have a UNIVERSAL keyword). However, by saying [IMPLICIT
57 // CONTEXT-SPECIFIC 42], that means that the tag is replaced by another.
58 //
59 // On the other hand, if it said [EXPLICIT CONTEXT-SPECIFIC 10], then an
60 // /additional/ tag would wrap the default tag. This explicit tag will have the
61 // compound flag set.
62 //
63 // (This is used in order to remove ambiguity with optional elements.)
64 //
65 // You can layer EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT tags to an arbitrary depth, however we
66 // don't support that here. We support a single layer of EXPLICIT or IMPLICIT
67 // tagging with tag strings on the fields of a structure.
68
69 // fieldParameters is the parsed representation of tag string from a structure field.
70 type fieldParameters struct {
71 optional bool // true iff the field is OPTIONAL
72 explicit bool // true iff an EXPLICIT tag is in use.
73 application bool // true iff an APPLICATION tag is in use.
74 defaultValue *int64 // a default value for INTEGER typed fields (maybe nil).
75 tag *int // the EXPLICIT or IMPLICIT tag (maybe nil).
76 stringType int // the string tag to use when marshaling.
77 set bool // true iff this should be encoded as a SET
78 omitEmpty bool // true iff this should be omitted if empty when marshaling.
79
80 // Invariants:
81 // if explicit is set, tag is non-nil.
82 }
83
84 // Given a tag string with the format specified in the package comment,
85 // parseFieldParameters will parse it into a fieldParameters structure,
86 // ignoring unknown parts of the string.
87 func parseFieldParameters(str string) (ret fieldParameters) {
88 for _, part := range strings.Split(str, ",") {
89 switch {
90 case part == "optional":
91 ret.optional = true
92 case part == "explicit":
93 ret.explicit = true
94 if ret.tag == nil {
95 ret.tag = new(int)
96 }
97 case part == "ia5":
98 ret.stringType = tagIA5String
99 case part == "printable":
100 ret.stringType = tagPrintableString
101 case strings.HasPrefix(part, "default:"):
102 i, err := strconv.ParseInt(part[8:], 10, 64)
103 if err == nil {
104 ret.defaultValue = new(int64)
105 *ret.defaultValue = i
106 }
107 case strings.HasPrefix(part, "tag:"):
108 i, err := strconv.Atoi(part[4:])
109 if err == nil {
110 ret.tag = new(int)
111 *ret.tag = i
112 }
113 case part == "set":
114 ret.set = true
115 case part == "application":
116 ret.application = true
117 if ret.tag == nil {
118 ret.tag = new(int)
119 }
120 case part == "omitempty":
121 ret.omitEmpty = true
122 }
123 }
124 return
125 }
126
127 // Given a reflected Go type, getUniversalType returns the default tag number
128 // and expected compound flag.
129 func getUniversalType(t reflect.Type) (tagNumber int, isCompound, ok bool) {
130 switch t {
131 case objectIdentifierType:
132 return tagOID, false, true
133 case bitStringType:
134 return tagBitString, false, true
135 case timeType:
136 return tagUTCTime, false, true
137 case enumeratedType:
138 return tagEnum, false, true
139 case bigIntType:
140 return tagInteger, false, true
141 }
142 switch t.Kind() {
143 case reflect.Bool:
144 return tagBoolean, false, true
145 case reflect.Int, reflect.Int8, reflect.Int16, reflect.Int32, reflect.Int64:
146 return tagInteger, false, true
147 case reflect.Struct:
148 return tagSequence, true, true
149 case reflect.Slice:
150 if t.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
151 return tagOctetString, false, true
152 }
153 if strings.HasSuffix(t.Name(), "SET") {
154 return tagSet, true, true
155 }
156 return tagSequence, true, true
157 case reflect.String:
158 return tagPrintableString, false, true
159 }
160 return 0, false, false
161 }