RFR: 8252523: Add ASN1 Formatter to work with HexPrinter [v2]
Jamil Nimeh
jnimeh at openjdk.java.net
Tue Sep 29 19:47:00 UTC 2020
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:40:46 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:
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> > Regarding the end-of-content identifier, that looks good. Thanks for fixing the indentation for the right-side ASN.1
> > interpretation of the bytes. My only remaining question is whether the corresponding hex dumps on the left should match
> > the indentation levels as well. I don't have a strong opinion either way on that one but if you're indenting for each
> > element at the same nest level it seems like that could potentially chew up a lot of horizontal space. Was the extra
> > indentation for the second octet string done for readability?
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> Max had requested the current offset of the byte values, so it was easy to see where each new value started and to keep
> the offsets on a modulo boundary. The formatter on the right is largely decoupled from the hex value tabular form on
> the left while keeping the correspondence between the formatted items and the bytes.
If you and Max find that better from a visual perspective then that works for me. Thanks for clarifying that.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/268
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