Exception handlers are only supported for BER decoding. BER is more amenable to error recovery than some other encoding rules.
To implement an exception handler, you do two things:
Implement the Asn1BerExceptionHandler interface. In the
example below, you can see the signature of the only method in this
interface.
Instantiate an instance of your exception handler class
and set it as the exception handler, using
Asn1BerDecodeBuffer.setExceptionHandler().
The following example is taken from the reader program of the
java/sample_ber/ErrorHandlersample. In that sample,
we illustrate ignoring all of the exceptions that can be ignored.
You can see that some exceptions requuire skipping a TLV
(tag-length-value), while others don't require any special action.
The runtime documentation for
Asn1BerExceptionHandler documents what is required
to handle each type of exception. Exceptions that are not ignored are
simply returned by the handler; if we had wanted to, the handler
could have constructed some other exception and returned that, instead.
public static class Handler implements Asn1BerExceptionHandler
{
public RuntimeException handleException(Asn1Exception e,
Asn1BerDecodeBuffer buffer)
{
try {
if (e instanceof Asn1MissingRequiredException ||
e instanceof Asn1InvalidEnumException)
{
//ignore exception; no recovery action required
System.out.println("IGNORED: " + e.getMessage());
return null;
}
else if (e instanceof Asn1SeqOrderException ||
e instanceof Asn1UnexpectedElementException ||
e instanceof Asn1SetDuplicateException ||
e instanceof Asn1NotInSetException ||
e instanceof Asn1InvalidChoiceOptionException)
{
//skip the offending element
buffer.skipTLV();
System.out.println("IGNORED: " + e.getMessage());
return null;
}
}
catch (java.io.IOException ignored) {
//ignore: recovery failed
}
return e;
}
}
Setting the exception handler is simple:
// Create a decode buffer object
Asn1BerDecodeBuffer decodeBuffer =
new Asn1BerDecodeBuffer (ins);
decodeBuffer.setExceptionHandler(new Handler());