RFR: 8277976: Break up SEQUENCE in X509Certificate::getSubjectAlternativeNames and X509Certificate::getIssuerAlternativeNames in otherName [v5]

[Michael Osipov]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:41:50 GMT, Weijun Wang <weijun at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @wangweij So you have selected to really swallow the exception here?
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> Yes. I don't want to let the method fail. Since `instanceof String` should be called anyway the caller can decide how to fail.

So you leave it to the user to read the ASN.1 value and fail if the encoding is incorrect instead of throwing a `Ceritificate..Exception` although other GeneralNames do?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7167