Objects of the base.ChoiceTypeAsn1Object class

Instances of base.ChoiceTypeAsn1Object class implement the mapping object protocol by means of the following methods:

__getitem__(key)

Returns a reference to embedded component (class instance) by key (type name).

__setitem__(key, value)

Assigns a reference to embedded component (class instance) by key (type name).

__delitem__(key)

Removes a reference to embedded component (class instance) by key (type name).

keys()

Returns a list of known keys (types names).

has_key(key)

Returns true if key (type name) is present in this object.

values()

Returns a list of references to embedded components (class instances).

items()

Returns a list of tuples each of which represents a key-value pair (type-name, embedded-component).

update(items)

Merges the items dictionary with the payload of this object.

__cmp__(other)

Called on object comparation of this ASN.1 object with the other, which should be an instance of ChoiceTypeAsn1Object class.

__hash__()

Returns object hash value, which is actually a XOR'ed set of hash values of embedded objects and keys.

__str__()

__repr__()

Returns a printable representation of ASN.1 object structure.

Instances of ChoiceTypeAsn1Object class make use of the following public instance variable:

choiceNames

choiceComponents

These instance variables should be initialized to type names and corresponding class references of embedded components to specify the set of allowed set of types names (keys) and class references (embedded components).

initialComponent

This instance variable may be initialized to a class reference of one of possible embedded components (listed in