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24 // Novell.Directory.Ldap.Asn1.Asn1Null.cs
27 // Sunil Kumar (Sunilk@novell.com)
29 // (C) 2003 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)
34 namespace Novell.Directory.Ldap.Asn1
37 /// <summary> This class represents the ASN.1 NULL type.</summary>
38 public class Asn1Null:Asn1Object
41 /// <summary> ASN.1 NULL tag definition.</summary>
42 public const int TAG = 0x05;
44 /// <summary> ID is added for Optimization.</summary>
45 /// <summary> ID needs only be one Value for every instance,
46 /// thus we create it only once.
48 public static readonly Asn1Identifier ID = new Asn1Identifier(Asn1Identifier.UNIVERSAL, false, TAG);
49 /* Constructor for Asn1Null
52 /// <summary> Call this constructor to construct a new Asn1Null
55 public Asn1Null():base(ID)
60 /* Asn1Object implementation
63 /// <summary> Call this method to encode the current instance into the
64 /// specified output stream using the specified encoder object.
67 /// <param name="enc">Encoder object to use when encoding self.
70 /// <param name="out">The output stream onto which the encoded byte
71 /// stream is written.
73 public override void encode(Asn1Encoder enc, System.IO.Stream out_Renamed)
75 enc.encode(this, out_Renamed);
79 /* Asn1Null specific methods
82 /// <summary> Return a String representation of this Asn1Null object.</summary>
83 public override System.String ToString()
85 return base.ToString() + "NULL: \"\"";