001/* X509Certificate.java -- base class of X.509 certificates. 002 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package javax.security.cert; 040 041import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; 042import java.io.InputStream; 043 044import java.math.BigInteger; 045 046import java.security.Principal; 047import java.security.cert.CertificateFactory; 048 049import java.util.Date; 050 051/** 052 * <p>The base class of all X.509 certificates.</p> 053 * 054 * <p><b>This class is deprecated in favor of the {@link 055 * java.security.cert.X509Certificate} class. It should not be used in new 056 * applications.</b></p> 057 */ 058public abstract class X509Certificate extends Certificate 059{ 060 061 // Class methods. 062 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 063 064 /** 065 * <p>Get an instance of X509Certificate for the given encoded bytes.</p> 066 * 067 * @param encoded The encoded certificate. 068 * @return An instance of X509Certificate. 069 * @throws CertificateException If the encoded certificate cannot be parsed. 070 */ 071 public static X509Certificate getInstance(byte[] encoded) 072 throws CertificateException 073 { 074 return getInstance(new ByteArrayInputStream(encoded)); 075 } 076 077 /** 078 * <p>Get an instance of X509Certificate for the given encoded stream.</p> 079 * 080 * @param encoded The encoded certificate stream.. 081 * @return An instance of X509Certificate. 082 * @throws CertificateException If the encoded certificate cannot be parsed. 083 */ 084 public static X509Certificate getInstance(InputStream encoded) 085 throws CertificateException 086 { 087 try 088 { 089 CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509"); 090 return new X509CertBridge((java.security.cert.X509Certificate) 091 cf.generateCertificate(encoded)); 092 } 093 catch (java.security.cert.CertificateException ce) 094 { 095 throw new CertificateException(ce.getMessage()); 096 } 097 } 098 099 // Abstract methods. 100 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101 102 /** 103 * <p>Check if this certificate is valid now.</p> 104 * 105 * @throws CertificateExpiredException If the certificate has expired. 106 * @throws CertificateNotYetValidException If the certificate is not yet valid. 107 * @see #checkValidity(java.util.Date) 108 */ 109 public abstract void checkValidity() 110 throws CertificateExpiredException, CertificateNotYetValidException; 111 112 /** 113 * <p>Check if this certificate is valid for the given date.</p> 114 * 115 * @param date The date to check. 116 * @throws CertificateExpiredException If the certificate has expired. 117 * @throws CertificateNotYetValidException If the certificate is not yet valid. 118 */ 119 public abstract void checkValidity(Date date) 120 throws CertificateExpiredException, CertificateNotYetValidException; 121 122 /** 123 * <p>Returns the X.509 version number.</p> 124 * 125 * @return The version number. 126 */ 127 public abstract int getVersion(); 128 129 /** 130 * <p>Returns this certificate's serial number.</p> 131 * 132 * @return The serial number. 133 */ 134 public abstract BigInteger getSerialNumber(); 135 136 /** 137 * <p>Returns the distinguished name of this certificate's issuer.</p> 138 * 139 * @return The issuer's distinguished name. 140 */ 141 public abstract Principal getIssuerDN(); 142 143 /** 144 * <p>Returns the distinguished name of this certificate's subject.</p> 145 * 146 * @return The subject's distinguished name. 147 */ 148 public abstract Principal getSubjectDN(); 149 150 /** 151 * <p>Returns the <i>not before</i> portion of this certificate's validity 152 * period.</p> 153 * 154 * @return The not before date. 155 */ 156 public abstract Date getNotBefore(); 157 158 /** 159 * <p>Returns the <i>not after</i> portion of this certificate's validity 160 * period.</p> 161 * 162 * @return The not after date. 163 */ 164 public abstract Date getNotAfter(); 165 166 /** 167 * <p>Returns the name of this certificate's signature algorithm.</p> 168 * 169 * @return The name of the signature algorithm. 170 */ 171 public abstract String getSigAlgName(); 172 173 /** 174 * <p>Returns the object identifier (OID) of this certificate's signature 175 * algorithm. The returned string is a sequence of integers separated by 176 * periods.</p> 177 * 178 * @return The signature OID. 179 */ 180 public abstract String getSigAlgOID(); 181 182 /** 183 * <p>Returns the signature parameters. The returned byte array contains the 184 * raw DER-encoded parameters.</p> 185 * 186 * @return The signature parameters. 187 */ 188 public abstract byte[] getSigAlgParams(); 189}