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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2014-06-04 14:26:35 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2014-06-04 14:26:41 +0200
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asn1_read_value() and friends understand the ?CURRENT keyword.
That keyword allows to specify the current element if the given node is a node in a sequence or set.
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diff --git a/lib/element.c b/lib/element.c
index c2b7107..b45c3ec 100644
--- a/lib/element.c
+++ b/lib/element.c
@@ -676,7 +676,9 @@ asn1_write_value (asn1_node node_root, const char *name,
* %ASN1_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND, it means that this element wasn't present
* in the der encoding that created the structure. The first element
* of a SEQUENCE_OF or SET_OF is named "?1". The second one "?2" and
- * so on.
+ * so on. If the @root provided is a node to specific sequence element,
+ * then the keyword "?CURRENT" is also acceptable and indicates the
+ * current sequence element of this node.
*
* Note that there can be valid values with length zero. In these case
* this function will succeed and @len will be zero.
@@ -741,12 +743,14 @@ asn1_read_value (asn1_node root, const char *name, void *ivalue, int *len)
* holds the sizeof value.
* @etype: The type of the value read (ASN1_ETYPE)
*
- * Returns the value of one element inside a structure.
+ * Returns the type and value of one element inside a structure.
* If an element is OPTIONAL and this returns
* %ASN1_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND, it means that this element wasn't present
* in the der encoding that created the structure. The first element
* of a SEQUENCE_OF or SET_OF is named "?1". The second one "?2" and
- * so on.
+ * so on. If the @root provided is a node to specific sequence element,
+ * then the keyword "?CURRENT" is also acceptable and indicates the
+ * current sequence element of this node.
*
* Note that there can be valid values with length zero. In these case
* this function will succeed and @len will be zero.