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17.Dd $Mdocdate: October 25 2019 $
18.Dt OBER_GET_STRING 3
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm ober_get_null ,
22.Nm ober_get_eoc ,
23.Nm ober_get_integer ,
24.Nm ober_get_enumerated ,
25.Nm ober_get_boolean ,
26.Nm ober_get_string ,
27.Nm ober_get_nstring ,
28.Nm ober_get_ostring ,
29.Nm ober_get_bitstring ,
30.Nm ober_get_oid ,
31.Nm ober_getpos ,
32.Nm ober_scanf_elements
33.Nd access properties of ASN.1 objects decoded from BER
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In sys/types.h
36.In ber.h
37.Ft "int"
38.Fn "ober_get_null" "struct ber_element *root"
39.Ft "int"
40.Fn "ober_get_eoc" "struct ber_element *root"
41.Ft "int"
42.Fn "ober_get_integer" "struct ber_element *root" "long long *val"
43.Ft "int"
44.Fn "ober_get_enumerated" "struct ber_element *root" "long long *val"
45.Ft "int"
46.Fn "ober_get_boolean" "struct ber_element *root" "int *bool"
47.Ft "int"
48.Fn "ober_get_string" "struct ber_element *root" "char **charbuf"
49.Ft "int"
50.Fn "ober_get_nstring" "struct ber_element *root" "void **buf" "size_t *size"
51.Ft "int"
52.Fn "ober_get_ostring" "struct ber_element *root" "struct ber_octetstring *ostring"
53.Ft "int"
54.Fn "ober_get_bitstring" "struct ber_element *root" "void **buf" "size_t *size"
55.Ft "int"
56.Fn "ober_get_oid" "struct ber_element *root" "struct ber_oid *oid"
57.Ft off_t
58.Fn "ober_getpos" "struct ber_element *elm"
59.Ft "int"
60.Fn "ober_scanf_elements" "struct ber_element *root" "char *format" "..."
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62Functions which take two arguments save the value contained in the
63.Fa root
64element into the storage location pointed to by the second argument.
65Additionally,
66.Fn ober_get_nstring
67and
68.Fn ober_get_bitstring
69save the number of bytes contained in the string into
70.Pf * Fa size .
71.Pp
72.Fn ober_scanf_elements
73retrieves the values from zero or more elements starting at
74.Fa root .
75For each byte in
76.Fa fmt ,
77arguments of the types given in the following table are consumed
78and passed to the function listed, processing one
79.Vt ber_element
80per byte.
81The following bytes are valid:
82.Bl -column -offset indent bytes ober_get_enumerated() "1: struct ber_element **"
83.It Sy byte Ta Sy function Ta Sy arguments
84.It B Ta Fn ober_get_bitstring  Ta 2: Vt void ** , size_t *
85.It b Ta Fn ober_get_boolean    Ta 1: Vt int *
86.It d Ta Fn ober_get_integer    Ta 1: Vt int *
87.It E Ta Fn ober_get_enumerated Ta 1: Vt long long *
88.It e Ta see below              Ta 1: Vt struct ber_element **
89.It i Ta Fn ober_get_integer    Ta 1: Vt long long *
90.It o Ta Fn ober_get_oid        Ta 1: Vt struct ber_oid *
91.It p Ta Fn ober_getpos         Ta 1: Vt off_t *
92.It S Ta see below              Ta 0
93.It s Ta Fn ober_get_string     Ta 1: Vt char **
94.It t Ta see below              Ta 2: Vt int * , unsigned int *
95.It x Ta Fn ober_get_nstring    Ta 2: Vt void **, size_t *
96.It \&( or { Ta see below       Ta 0
97.It \&) or } Ta see below       Ta 0
98.It \&. Ta Fn ober_get_eoc      Ta 0
99.It 0 Ta Fn ober_get_null       Ta 0
100.El
101.Pp
102For
103.Sq e ,
104.Sq p ,
105.Sq S ,
106and
107.Sq t ,
108the type of the element is not checked.
109For
110.Sq p
111and
112.Sq t ,
113the pointer is not incremented to the next element.
114For
115.Sq e ,
116a pointer to the element is stored in the corresponding pointer variable.
117For
118.Sq S ,
119the element is skipped without extracting any information from it.
120For
121.Sq t ,
122the class and type of the element are stored in the two corresponding
123variables, but if the element contains a value, that value is ignored.
124.Pp
125For an opening parenthesis or brace, it is checked that the element
126is a sequence or a set, and parsing continues with its children.
127For a closing parenthesis or brace, parsing of the current sequence
128or set is ended and parsing continues with the element following
129the sequence or set.
130.Sh RETURN VALUES
131.Fn ober_getpos
132returns the value of
133.Vt be_offs .
134.Pp
135.Fn ober_scanf_elements
136returns 0 for success or \-1 when encountering elements that do not
137agree with the expectations of
138.Fa fmt
139or when
140.Fa fmt
141is syntactically invalid.
142Even when
143.Fn ober_scanf_elements
144fails, some of the arguments may already have been filled in.
145.Pp
146The other functions return 0 if
147.Va root
148is of the requested type or \-1 otherwise.
149.Sh SEE ALSO
150.Xr ober_add_string 3 ,
151.Xr ober_oid_cmp 3 ,
152.Xr ober_read_elements 3 ,
153.Xr ober_set_header 3
154.Sh STANDARDS
155ITU-T Recommendation X.690, also known as ISO/IEC 8825-1:
156Information technology - ASN.1 encoding rules.
157.Sh HISTORY
158These functions first appeared as internal functions in
159.Xr snmpd 8
160in
161.Ox 4.2
162and were moved to libutil in
163.Ox 6.6 .
164.Sh AUTHORS
165.An -nosplit
166The BER library was written by
167.An Claudio Jeker Aq Mt claudio@openbsd.org ,
168.An Marc Balmer Aq Mt marc@openbsd.org
169and
170.An Reyk Floeter Aq Mt reyk@openbsd.org .
171