question: public static final byte [ ] toOctets ( AttributeType type , String str ) { final byte [ ] s = str . getBytes ( StandardCharsets . UTF_8 ) ; byte [ ] octets ; if ( s . length > Attribute . MAX_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH ) { octets = new byte [ Attribute . MAX_ATTRIBUTE_LENGTH ] ; octets [ 0 ] = ( byte ) type . getTypeCode ( ) ; octets [ 1 ] = ( byte ) Attribute . MAX_ATTRIBUTE_LENGTH ; System . arraycopy ( s , 0 , octets , 2 , Attribute . MAX_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LENGTH ) ; } else { octets = new byte [ s . length + 2 ] ; octets [ 0 ] = ( byte ) type . getTypeCode ( ) ; octets [ 1 ] = ( byte ) ( s . length + 2 ) ; System . arraycopy ( s , 0 , octets , 2 , s . length ) ; } return octets ; }
target:  Crafts the on-the-wire octet array conforming to the format of section 3 of RFC 2865 with the value being a string possibly truncated to fit into the maximum of 253 characters allowed for values.