More ASN.1...

[Bertil Karlsson]

You are absolutely right! The asn1 compiler should have generated a
'TransportAddress_ipAddress' record, and so also for each SEQUENCE/SET
that is defined inside a "constructed type" (SEQUENCE, CHOICE, SET,
SEQUENCE OF, SET OF) like in:

MyType ::= CHOICE {
	a SEQUENCE {a INTEGER, b INTEGER}
}

This will result in a record 'MyType_a'.

Due to a bug in the compiler no record is generated for a SEQUENCE in a
CHOICE that has extensionmarks, like in:
MyType2 ::= CHOICE {
	a SEQUENCE {a INTEGER, b INTEGER},
	...
}
The TransportAddress is a CHOICE with an extension mark.

There will be a fix of this bug in the next release.
Maybe the easiest workaround is to define missing records by hand.

Bruce Fitzsimons wrote:
> 
> I have a few more questions about the Erlang ASN.1 compiler/runtime.
> 
> Given an H.323 TransportAddress definition (used for addressing
> packets'n'stuff, definition below) I can get packets decoded with items such
> as:
> 
> {ipAddress,
>     {'TransportAddress_ipAddress',
>         [10,151,33,220],
>         2634}},
> 
> However there doesn't seem to be any way of decoding/interpreting this
> directly, inasmuch as there is no auto-generated record definition
> 'TransportAddress_ipAddress' (or for any of the other choices). This is
> contrary to what I would have expected given that other choices do end up
> with records for their sub-sequences (such as, for example, the RasMessage
> choice - gives 'GatekeeperRequest' etc).
> 
> I feel I must be missing something fundamental. I can of course define a
> record for myself, but I thought I should ask the question.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> /Bruce
> 
> H323 ASN.1 definition:
> 
> TransportAddress ::= CHOICE
> {
>  ipAddress SEQUENCE
>  {
>   ip   OCTET STRING (SIZE(4)),
>   port   INTEGER(0..65535)
>  },
>  ipSourceRoute SEQUENCE
>  {
>   ip   OCTET STRING (SIZE(4)),
>   port   INTEGER(0..65535),
>   route   SEQUENCE OF OCTET STRING (SIZE(4)),
>   routing   CHOICE
>   {
>    strict NULL,
>    loose NULL,
>    ...
>   },
>   ...
>  },
>  ipxAddress SEQUENCE
>  {
>   node  OCTET STRING (SIZE(6)),
>   netnum  OCTET STRING (SIZE(4)),
>   port  OCTET STRING (SIZE(2))
>  },
>  ip6Address SEQUENCE
>  {
>   ip  OCTET STRING (SIZE(16)),
>   port  INTEGER(0..65535),
>   ...
>  },
>  netBios   OCTET STRING (SIZE(16)),
>  nsap   OCTET STRING (SIZE(1..20)),
>  nonStandardAddress NonStandardParameter,
>  ...
> }

-- 
/ Bertil Karlsson