Re: [Ejbca-develop] (no subject)

[Ivan R <iva...@gm...>]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply it cleared things up quite a bit. I have a few more
questions regarding debugging and database installation.Would the proper
way to ask be to ask in a reply such as this one or is it better to ask in
a separate mail?

Regards,
Ivan

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Tomas Gustavsson <to...@pr...> wrote:

>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> This is a great place to ask. Parsing an end entity profile XML is a bit
> tricky unfortunately, but others have proven it can be done :-)
>
> The XML is a direct representation of the internal format, so no human
> readable formatting done.
>
> This part from the javadoc should help you. Unless you use Java, then
> you can simply load the XML into an EndEntity class that you can find in
> EJBCA.
>
>
> -----
>  * The algorithm for constants in the EndEntityProfile is:
>  * Values are stored as 100*parameternumber+parameter, so the first
> COMMONNAME value is 105, the second 205 etc.
>  * Use flags are stored as 10000+100*parameternumber+parameter, so the
> first USE_COMMONNAME value is 10105, the second 10205 etc.
>  * Required flags are stored as 20000+100*parameternumber+parameter, so
> the first REQUIRED_COMMONNAME value is 20105, the second 20205 etc.
>  * Modifyable flags are stored as 30000+100*parameternumber+parameter,
> so the first MODIFYABLE_COMMONNAME value is 30105, the second 30205 etc.
>  *
>  * Parsing an exported End Entity Profile XML:
>  * In the EndEntityProfile XML there is for example a field
> SUBJECTDNFIELDORDER which contains the defined DN components.
>  * The algorithm is:
>  * 100*parameter + size
>  *
>  * So for example if SUBJECTDNFIELDORDER contains the two values "500,
> 1100" this means there is one CN and one OU.
>  * Numbers are defined in src/java/profilemappings.properties and CN=5
> and OU=11, so 100*5+0 = 500 and 100*11+0 = 1100.
>  * If there would be two OU fields there would also be one 1101
> (100*11+1) in the SUBJECTDNFIELDORDER.
>  *
>  * You can see if the first CN field is required by finding a key in the
> XML with the formula:
>  * 20000+100*0+5 = 20005
>  * if the value of this key is true, the first CN field is required and
> not optional.
>  * etc, for the second CN field (if there was a second one in
> SUBJECTDNFIELDORDER) it would be 20000+100*1+5.
> -----
>
> Regards,
> Tomas
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> On 2016-05-09 09:10, Ivan R wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I get an end entity profile xml using the WSs and want to parse it in
> > order to create a similar form to the one on the site elsewhere. I've
> > looked around however I couldn't find documentation on how to do that.
> > Any useful links or tips?
> >
> > Sorry if this isn't the place to ask and thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ivan
> >
> >
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