ASN1 Private Constructor

[Sean Hinde]

Perfect, Thank you.

I just completed a horrible handraulic decoder which I can now happily 
throw away and replace with a nice clean asn.1 source file :-)

Cheers,
Sean

On 7 Apr 2004, at 22:18, Kenneth Lundin wrote:

> Hi,
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> You use IMPLICIT TAGS to get a private tag without an universal tag 
> for a SEQUENCE.
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> Example
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> S DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS::=
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> BEGIN
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> S ::= [PRIVATE 1 ] SEQUENCE {
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>         a INTEGER,
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>         b BOOLEAN
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> }
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> END
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> Note!, another way than the IMPLICIT TAGS as default on all tags 
> defined in the module is to define
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> The type S like this (in a module with any tagdefault).
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> S::= [PRIVATE 1] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE { ….
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> 6> asn1ct:compile("S").
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> Erlang ASN.1 version "1.4.2" compiling "S.asn"
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>  Compiler Options: []
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> --{generated,"S.asn1db"}--
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> --{generated,"S.hrl"}--
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> --{generated,"S.erl"}--
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> ok
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> …
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> 9> 'S':encode('S',{'S',1,true}).
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> {ok,[225,6,2,1,1,1,1,255]}
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> 225 = Tag E1, (actually the tag is CONSTRUCTED,PRIVATE,TAGVALUE=1)
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> 6 = length
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> 2 = Tag UNIVERSAL 2 -> INTEGER
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> 1 = length
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> 1= Integervalue
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> 1= Tag UNIVERSAL 1 -> BOOLEAN
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> 1= length
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> 255 = Boolean value which means ‘TRUE’
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> /Kenneth Lundin
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