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Title "ASN1_TYPE_GET 3"
ASN1_TYPE_GET 3 "2022-11-01" "1.1.1s" "OpenSSL"
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"NAME"
ASN1_TYPE_get, ASN1_TYPE_set, ASN1_TYPE_set1, ASN1_TYPE_cmp, ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence, ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence - ASN1_TYPE utility functions
"SYNOPSIS"
Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 #include <openssl/asn1.h> \& int ASN1_TYPE_get(const ASN1_TYPE *a); void ASN1_TYPE_set(ASN1_TYPE *a, int type, void *value); int ASN1_TYPE_set1(ASN1_TYPE *a, int type, const void *value); int ASN1_TYPE_cmp(const ASN1_TYPE *a, const ASN1_TYPE *b); \& void *ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence(const ASN1_ITEM *it, const ASN1_TYPE *t); ASN1_TYPE *ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence(const ASN1_ITEM *it, void *s, ASN1_TYPE **t); .Ve
"DESCRIPTION"
Header "DESCRIPTION" These functions allow an \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 structure to be manipulated. The \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 structure can contain any \s-1ASN.1\s0 type or constructed type such as a \s-1SEQUENCE:\s0 it is effectively equivalent to the \s-1ASN.1 ANY\s0 type.

\fBASN1_TYPE_get() returns the type of a.

\fBASN1_TYPE_set() sets the value of a to type and value. This function uses the pointer value internally so it must not be freed up after the call.

\fBASN1_TYPE_set1() sets the value of a to type a copy of value.

\fBASN1_TYPE_cmp() compares \s-1ASN.1\s0 types a and b and returns 0 if they are identical and nonzero otherwise.

\fBASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() attempts to parse the \s-1SEQUENCE\s0 present in \fBt using the \s-1ASN.1\s0 structure it. If successful it returns a pointer to the \s-1ASN.1\s0 structure corresponding to it which must be freed by the caller. If it fails it return \s-1NULL.\s0

\fBASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence() attempts to encode the \s-1ASN.1\s0 structure s corresponding to it into an \s-1ASN1_TYPE.\s0 If successful the encoded \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 is returned. If t and *t are not \s-1NULL\s0 the encoded type is written to t overwriting any existing data. If t is not \s-1NULL\s0 but *t is \s-1NULL\s0 the returned \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 is written to *t.

"NOTES"
Header "NOTES" The type and meaning of the value parameter for ASN1_TYPE_set() and \fBASN1_TYPE_set1() is determined by the type parameter. If type is V_ASN1_NULL value is ignored. If type is V_ASN1_BOOLEAN then the boolean is set to \s-1TRUE\s0 if value is not \s-1NULL.\s0 If type is V_ASN1_OBJECT then value is an \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 structure. Otherwise type is and \s-1ASN1_STRING\s0 structure. If type corresponds to a primitive type (or a string type) then the contents of the \s-1ASN1_STRING\s0 contain the content octets of the type. If type corresponds to a constructed type or a tagged type (V_ASN1_SEQUENCE, V_ASN1_SET or V_ASN1_OTHER) then the \s-1ASN1_STRING\s0 contains the entire \s-1ASN.1\s0 encoding verbatim (including tag and length octets).

\fBASN1_TYPE_cmp() may not return zero if two types are equivalent but have different encodings. For example the single content octet of the boolean \s-1TRUE\s0 value under \s-1BER\s0 can have any nonzero encoding but ASN1_TYPE_cmp() will only return zero if the values are the same.

If either or both of the parameters passed to ASN1_TYPE_cmp() is \s-1NULL\s0 the return value is nonzero. Technically if both parameters are \s-1NULL\s0 the two types could be absent \s-1OPTIONAL\s0 fields and so should match, however, passing \s-1NULL\s0 values could also indicate a programming error (for example an unparsable type which returns \s-1NULL\s0) for types which do not match. So applications should handle the case of two absent values separately.

"RETURN VALUES"
Header "RETURN VALUES" \fBASN1_TYPE_get() returns the type of the \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 argument.

\fBASN1_TYPE_set() does not return a value.

\fBASN1_TYPE_set1() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.

\fBASN1_TYPE_cmp() returns 0 if the types are identical and nonzero otherwise.

\fBASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() returns a pointer to an \s-1ASN.1\s0 structure or \s-1NULL\s0 on failure.

\fBASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence() return an \s-1ASN1_TYPE\s0 structure if it succeeds or \s-1NULL\s0 on failure.

"COPYRIGHT"
Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2015-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.