Attribute (Bouncy Castle Library 1.52 API Specification)
Date: 2015-03-01

org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs

## Class Attribute

- java.lang.Object
- - org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object
  - - org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.Attribute

- All Implemented Interfaces:
    ASN1Encodable, Encodable

      public class Attribute
      extends ASN1Object

- - ### Constructor Summary

    Constructors
    Constructor and Description
    `Attribute(ASN1ObjectIdentifier attrType, ASN1Set attrValues)`
    `Attribute(ASN1Sequence seq)`

  - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `ASN1Encodable[]` | `getAttributeValues()`
    `ASN1ObjectIdentifier` | `getAttrType()`
    `ASN1Set` | `getAttrValues()`
    `static Attribute` | `getInstance(java.lang.Object o)` return an Attribute object from the given object.
    `ASN1Primitive` | `toASN1Primitive()` Produce an object suitable for an ASN1OutputStream.

    - ### Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

      `equals, getEncoded, getEncoded, hasEncodedTagValue, hashCode, toASN1Object`

    - ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

      `clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

- - ### Constructor Detail

    - #### Attribute

          public Attribute(ASN1Sequence seq)

    - #### Attribute

          public Attribute(ASN1ObjectIdentifier attrType,
                   ASN1Set attrValues)

  - ### Method Detail

    - #### getInstance

          public static Attribute getInstance(java.lang.Object o)

      return an Attribute object from the given object.
      Parameters:
        `o` - the object we want converted.
      Throws:
        `java.lang.IllegalArgumentException` - if the object cannot be converted.

    - #### getAttrType

          public ASN1ObjectIdentifier getAttrType()

    - #### getAttrValues

          public ASN1Set getAttrValues()

    - #### getAttributeValues

          public ASN1Encodable[] getAttributeValues()

    - #### toASN1Primitive

          public ASN1Primitive toASN1Primitive()

      Produce an object suitable for an ASN1OutputStream.

           Attribute ::= SEQUENCE {
               attrType OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
               attrValues SET OF AttributeValue
           }

      Specified by:
        `toASN1Primitive` in interface `ASN1Encodable`
      Specified by:
        `toASN1Primitive` in class `ASN1Object`
      Returns:
        a primitive representation of this object.