2362N/A * Copyright (c) 1997, 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 2362N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 2362N/A * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 2362N/A * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 2362N/A * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 0N/A * This class defines the <i>Service Provider Interface</i> (<b>SPI</b>) 0N/A * for the <code>AlgorithmParameters</code> class, which is used to manage 0N/A * algorithm parameters. 0N/A * <p> All the abstract methods in this class must be implemented by each 0N/A * cryptographic service provider who wishes to supply parameter management 0N/A * for a particular algorithm. 0N/A * @see AlgorithmParameters 0N/A * @see java.security.spec.AlgorithmParameterSpec 0N/A * @see java.security.spec.DSAParameterSpec 0N/A * Initializes this parameters object using the parameters 0N/A * specified in <code>paramSpec</code>. 0N/A * @param paramSpec the parameter specification. 0N/A * @exception InvalidParameterSpecException if the given parameter 0N/A * specification is inappropriate for the initialization of this parameter 0N/A * Imports the specified parameters and decodes them 0N/A * according to the primary decoding format for parameters. 0N/A * The primary decoding format for parameters is ASN.1, if an ASN.1 0N/A * specification for this type of parameters exists. 0N/A * @param params the encoded parameters. 0N/A * @exception IOException on decoding errors 0N/A * Imports the parameters from <code>params</code> and 0N/A * decodes them according to the specified decoding format. 0N/A * If <code>format</code> is null, the 0N/A * primary decoding format for parameters is used. The primary decoding 0N/A * format is ASN.1, if an ASN.1 specification for these parameters 0N/A * @param params the encoded parameters. 0N/A * @param format the name of the decoding format. 0N/A * @exception IOException on decoding errors 0N/A * Returns a (transparent) specification of this parameters 0N/A * <code>paramSpec</code> identifies the specification class in which 0N/A * the parameters should be returned. It could, for example, be 0N/A * <code>DSAParameterSpec.class</code>, to indicate that the 0N/A * parameters should be returned in an instance of the 0N/A * <code>DSAParameterSpec</code> class. 1104N/A * @param paramSpec the specification class in which 0N/A * the parameters should be returned. 0N/A * @return the parameter specification. 0N/A * @exception InvalidParameterSpecException if the requested parameter 0N/A * specification is inappropriate for this parameter object. 0N/A * Returns the parameters in their primary encoding format. 0N/A * The primary encoding format for parameters is ASN.1, if an ASN.1 0N/A * specification for this type of parameters exists. 0N/A * @return the parameters encoded using their primary encoding format. 0N/A * @exception IOException on encoding errors. 0N/A * Returns the parameters encoded in the specified format. 0N/A * If <code>format</code> is null, the 0N/A * primary encoding format for parameters is used. The primary encoding 0N/A * format is ASN.1, if an ASN.1 specification for these parameters 0N/A * @param format the name of the encoding format. 0N/A * @return the parameters encoded using the specified encoding scheme. 0N/A * @exception IOException on encoding errors. 0N/A * Returns a formatted string describing the parameters. 0N/A * @return a formatted string describing the parameters.