Request new method: X509v2CRLBuilder.setThisUpdate()

[stevemit]

The class X509v2CRLBuilder has methods setNextUpdate() but no method setThisUpdate(). "This update" is set only through the constructor. Subclassing outside the BC package doesn't help, as fields are package-private. The class V2TBSCertListGenerator is not a substitute, as it lacks a constructor from an existing CRL, which X509v2CRLBuilder has.

The use case is to compare two existing CRL's by first resetting both dates and then comparing encodings.

[dghgit]

This has been added to the latest in https://www.bouncycastle.org/betas

[stevemit]

Thanks! Not to press my luck, but I found that analogously I needed to also add setters for constructor arguments to X509v3CertificateBuilder. The use case is the same -- equivalence comparison in QA by resetting "variable" fields. The workaround is to copy the whole class to another package.

    public void setIssuer(X500Name issuer) {
    	tbsGen.setIssuer(issuer);
    }

    public void setSerialNumber(BigInteger serialNumber) {
    	tbsGen.setSerialNumber(new ASN1Integer(serialNumber));
    }
    
    public void setNotBefore(Time notBefore) {
    	tbsGen.setStartDate(notBefore);
    }
    
    public void setNotAfter(Time notAfter) {
    	tbsGen.setEndDate(notAfter);
    }
    
    public void setSubject(X500Name subject) {
    	tbsGen.setSubject(subject);
    }

    public void setSubjectPublicKeyInfo(SubjectPublicKeyInfo subjectPublicKeyInfo) {
    	tbsGen.setSubjectPublicKeyInfo(subjectPublicKeyInfo);
    }