On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:27:43 GMT, Weijun Wang <wei...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Refactored PKCS9Attribute to use a hash map instead of multiple arrays. The 
>> key for the hash map is an `ObjectIdentifier` and the values are a record 
>> `AttributeInfo` that stores the information previously contained in the 
>> arrays `PKCS9_VALUE_TAGS`, `VALUE_CLASSES`, and `SINGLE_VALUED`. 
>> 
>> It seems as though we should be able to get rid of constants such as 
>> `EMAIL_ADDRESS_OID` since they aren't heavily used with the hash map 
>> approach, but since the values are public it might cause compatibility 
>> issues.
>> 
>> Another question is how to handle `RSA DSI`, `S/MIME`, 
>> `Extended-certificate`, and `Issuer Serial Number` OIDs. The prior version 
>> threw an error but in this refactor they are treated as an "unknown OID" and 
>> only throw a debug warning. This was addressed in 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8011867 but prior to this refactor the 
>> aforementioned OIDs were treated differently than unknown OIDs.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/pkcs/PKCS9Attribute.java line 186:
> 
>> 184:     /**
>> 185:      * Array of attribute OIDs defined in PKCS9, by number.
>> 186:      */
> 
> I don't think `PKCS9_OIDS` is useful now. It's used in 
> `PKCS9Attributes.getAttributes()` but this method is used nowhere. It's also 
> used in `PKCS9Attributes.toString` but we can just iterate through 
> `attributes` there. I don't see a reason to print the attributes in this 
> order. If we want to print them in the order they appear in the data, we can 
> use `LinkedHashMap` to in `PKCS9Attributes`. `Hashtable` is a little stale.

Do you think we can remove `PKCS9Attributes.getAttributes()` entirely or should 
we just modify it to not use `PKCS9_OIDS` anymore?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17132#discussion_r1439704152

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