NAME

       asn1rt - ASN.1 runtime support functions

DESCRIPTION

       This module is the interface module for the ASN.1 runtime support functions. To encode and
       decode ASN.1 types in runtime the functions in this module should be used.

EXPORTS

       decode(Module,Type,Bytes) -> {ok,Value}|{error,Reason}

              Types:

                 Module = Type = atom()
                 Value = Reason = term()
                 Bytes = binary

              Decodes Type from Module from the binary Bytes. Returns {ok,Value} if successful.

       encode(Module,Type,Value)-> {ok,Bytes} | {error,Reason}

              Types:

                 Module = Type = atom()
                 Value = term()
                 Bytes = binary
                 Reason = term()

              Encodes Value of Type defined in the ASN.1 module Module. Returns a possibly nested
              list  of  bytes and or binaries if successful. To get as fast execution as possible
              the encode function only performs rudimentary tests  that  the  input  Value  is  a
              correct instance of Type. The length of strings is for example not always checked.

          Note:
              Starting in R16, Bytes is always a binary.

       info(Module) -> {ok,Info} | {error,Reason}

              Types:

                 Module = atom()
                 Info = list()
                 Reason = term()

              info/1  returns  the  version  of  the  asn1  compiler that was used to compile the
              module. It also returns the compiler options that was used.

       utf8_binary_to_list(UTF8Binary) -> {ok,UnicodeList} | {error,Reason}

              Types:

                 UTF8Binary = binary()
                 UnicodeList = [integer()]
                 Reason = term()

              utf8_binary_to_list/1 Transforms a UTF8 encoded binary to a list of integers, where
              each  integer  represents one character as its unicode value. The function fails if
              the binary is not a properly encoded UTF8 string.

       utf8_list_to_binary(UnicodeList) -> {ok,UTF8Binary} | {error,Reason}

              Types:

                 UnicodeList = [integer()]
                 UTF8Binary = binary()
                 Reason = term()

              utf8_list_to_binary/1 Transforms a list of integers, where each integer  represents
              one character as its unicode value, to a UTF8 encoded binary.