The ASN.1 Compiler

Hi, all,

I'm tring to parse a ranap.asn and got the following parse errors: ASN.1 grammar parse error near line 1002 (token "id-Cause"): parse error, unexpected TOK_identifier, expecting '}' Cannot parse "ranap.asn"

And the lines around 1002 are : Iu-ReleaseCommandIEs RANAP-PROTOCOL-IES ::= { { ID id-Cause CRITICALITY ignore TYPE Cause PRESENCE mandatory }, ... }

Can sombody tell me why this happens? Does this mean this syntax is not supported?

Thanks very much.

asn1c currently cannot handle inline type definitions. Here is a blurp from a previous reply that I gave. You can also find another example of this when I replied to andymart:

I think asn1c is incorrect here. You are using inlined typing for the object set. If you did something like:

myType S1AP-PROTOCOL-IES ::= { ID id-SAEBearerInformationListItem CRITICALITY ignore TYPE SAEBearerInformationListItem PRESENCE mandatory }

SAEBearerInformationListIEs S1AP-PROTOCOL-IES ::= { myType, ... }

Thans for your reply. Is there any method to work around this problem such as modify the asn.1 file to some equivalent syntax?

Yes, that's what I was saying...

For example, Instead of

SAEBearerInformationListIEs S1AP-PROTOCOL-IES = {{ ID id-SAEBearerInformationListItem CRITICALITY ignore TYPE SAEBearerInformationListItem PRESENCE mandatory }}

you have:

myType S1AP-PROTOCOL-IES ::= { ID id-SAEBearerInformationListItem CRITICALITY ignore TYPE SAEBearerInformationListItem PRESENCE mandatory }

SAEBearerInformationListIEs S1AP-PROTOCOL-IES ::= { myType}