com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2
Class SnmpBits

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpVar
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        +--com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpString
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              +--com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpBits

public class SnmpBits

extends SnmpString

Class of SNMP Bits Variable - Sub-class of SnmpString. This class can be used to create an object of type SnmpString. It also has methods to retrive the value in various forms(eg. String, byte).

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from class com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpString

byteValue, enc, s_emptyString, value

Fields inherited from class com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpVar

Type, varbindErrorVal

Constructor Summary

(package private)	SnmpBits()
	SnmpBits(byte[] b) Constructs a new SnmpBits by taking an octet string.
	SnmpBits(java.lang.String value, int radix) Constructs a new SnmpBits by taking a string value and the radix.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

getNumericValueAsString() This method will throw UnsupportedOperationException since this is not a numeric data type.

Methods inherited from class com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpString

encode, equals, getVarObject, newInstance, toBytes, toByteString, toString, toTagString, toValue

Methods inherited from class com.adventnet.snmp.snmp2.SnmpVar

createVariable, getError, getType, getTypeString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SnmpBits

SnmpBits()

SnmpBits

public SnmpBits(byte[] b)

Constructs a new SnmpBits by taking an octet string. The first byte should contain the count of bits in the last byte, which are not relevant.

SnmpBits

public SnmpBits(java.lang.String value,
                int radix)
         throws SnmpException

Constructs a new SnmpBits by taking a string value and the radix. The radix can be either 2 or 16 which represents binary and hex respectively. Padding of zero's is done at the end of the string value, when the length of the given string is not a multiple of 8.

Method Detail

getNumericValueAsString

public java.lang.String getNumericValueAsString()

This method will throw UnsupportedOperationException since this is not a numeric data type.

Overrides:

getNumericValueAsString in class SnmpString

Returns:

Nothing is returned since this method throws an exception.

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - Since this is not a numeric data type.