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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2014-02-24 11:56:45 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2014-02-24 11:56:45 +0100
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Merge branch 'bjorn/asn1/deprecations/OTP-11731'
* bjorn/asn1/deprecations/OTP-11731: Remove or de-emphasize references to the deprecated asn1rt module Deprecate asn1 functions
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diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
index eb9f000e75..ee54fdffd7 100644
--- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
+++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
@@ -205,16 +205,13 @@ ok
is saved in the <c>People.asn1db</c> file, the
generated Erlang code is compiled using the Erlang compiler and
loaded into the Erlang runtime system. Now there is a user interface
- of encode/2 and decode/2 in the module People, which is invoked by:
+ for <c>encode/2</c> and <c>decode/2</c> in the module People,
+ which is invoked by:
<br></br>
<c><![CDATA['People':encode(<Type name>,<Value>),]]></c> <br></br>
or <br></br>
-<c><![CDATA['People':decode(<Type name>,<Value>),]]></c> <br></br>
-
- Alternatively one can use the <c><![CDATA[asn1rt:encode(<Module name> ,<Type name>,<Value>)]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[asn1rt:decode(< Module name>,<Type name>,<Value>)]]></c> calls.
- However, they are not as efficient as the previous methods since they
- result in an additional <c>apply/3</c> call.</p>
+<c><![CDATA['People':decode(<Type name>,<Value>),]]></c></p>
<p>Assume there is a network
application which receives instances of the ASN.1 defined
type Person, modifies and sends them back again:</p>
@@ -241,16 +238,14 @@ receive
encoding-rules.
<br></br>
The encoder and the decoder can also be run from
- the shell. The following dialogue with the shell illustrates
- how the functions
- <c>asn1rt:encode/3</c> and <c>asn1rt:decode/3</c> are used.</p>
+ the shell.</p>
<pre>
2> <input>Rockstar = {'Person',"Some Name",roving,50}.</input>
{'Person',"Some Name",roving,50}
-3> <input>{ok,Bin} = asn1rt:encode('People','Person',Rockstar).</input>
+3> <input>{ok,Bin} = 'People':encode('Person',Rockstar).</input>
{ok,&lt;&lt;243,17,19,9,83,111,109,101,32,78,97,109,101,2,1,2,
2,1,50&gt;&gt;}
-4> <input>{ok,Person} = asn1rt:decode('People','Person',Bin).</input>
+4> <input>{ok,Person} = 'People':decode('Person',Bin).</input>
{ok,{'Person',"Some Name",roving,50}}
5> </pre>
</section>
@@ -279,11 +274,8 @@ The encoder and the decoder can also be run from
(including the compiler).</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>The module <c>asn1rt</c> which provides the run-time functions.
- However, it is preferable to use the generated <c>encode/2</c> and
- <c>decode/2</c> functions in each module, ie.
- Module:encode(Type,Value), in favor of the <c>asn1rt</c>
- interface.</p>
+ <p>The module <c>asn1rt_nif</c> which provides the run-time functions
+ for the ASN.1 decoder for the BER back-end.</p>
</item>
</list>
<p>The reason for the division of the interface into compile-time
@@ -384,25 +376,9 @@ asn1ct:decode('H323-MESSAGES','SomeChoiceType',Bytes). </pre>
<section>
<title>Run-time Functions</title>
- <p>A brief description of the major functions is given here. For a
- complete description of each function see
- <seealso marker="asn1rt"> the Asn1 Reference Manual</seealso>, the <c>asn1rt</c> module.</p>
- <p>The generic run-time encode and decode functions can be invoked as below:</p>
- <pre>
-asn1rt:encode('H323-MESSAGES','SomeChoiceType',{call,"octetstring"}).
-asn1rt:decode('H323-MESSAGES','SomeChoiceType',Bytes). </pre>
- <p>Or, preferable like:</p>
- <pre>
-'H323-MESSAGES':encode('SomeChoiceType',{call,"octetstring"}).
-'H323-MESSAGES':decode('SomeChoiceType',Bytes). </pre>
- <p>The asn1 nif is enabled in two occasions: encoding of
- asn1 values when the asn1 spec is compiled with <c>per</c> and
- or decode of encoded asn1 values when the asn1 spec is
- compiled with <c>ber</c>. In
- those cases the nif will be loaded automatically at the first call
- to <c>encode</c>/<c>decode</c>. If one doesn't want the performance
- overhead of the nif being loaded at the first call it is possible
- to load the nif separately by loading the <c>asn1rt_nif</c> module.</p>
+ <p>When an ASN.1 specification is compiled with the <c>ber</c>
+ option, the module <c>asn1rt_nif</c> module and the NIF library in
+ <c>asn1/priv_dir</c> will be needed at run-time.</p>
<p>By invoking the function <c>info/0</c> in a generated module, one
gets information about which compiler options were used.</p>
</section>
@@ -414,8 +390,8 @@ asn1rt:decode('H323-MESSAGES','SomeChoiceType',Bytes). </pre>
a line number indicating where in the source file the error
was detected. If no errors are found, an Erlang ASN.1 module will
be created as default.</p>
- <p>The run-time encoders and decoders (in the <c>asn1rt</c> module) do
- execute within a catch and returns <c>{ok, Data}</c> or
+ <p>The run-time encoders and decoders execute within a catch and
+ returns <c>{ok, Data}</c> or
<c>{error, {asn1, Description}}</c> where
<c>Description</c> is
an Erlang term describing the error. </p>