CertificateSource (Digital Signature Services 5.5 API)

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

CAdESCertificateSource, CMSCertificateSource, CommonCertificateSource, CommonTrustedCertificateSource, KeyStoreCertificateSource, PAdESCertificateSource, SignatureCertificateSource, TimestampCertificateSource, TrustedListsCertificateSource, XAdESCertificateSource
```
public interface CertificateSource
extends Serializable
```
The validation of a certificate requires to access some other certificates from multiple sources (Trusted List, Trust Store, the signature itself). This interface provides an abstraction for accessing a certificate, regardless of the source.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`CertificateToken`	`addCertificate(CertificateToken certificate)`	This method allows to manually add any certificate to the source.
`List<CertificateToken>`	`getCertificates()`	Retrieves the unmodifiable list of all certificate tokens from this source.
`CertificateSourceType`	`getCertificateSourceType()`	This method returns the certificate source type associated to the implementation class.
`boolean`	`isTrusted(CertificateToken certificateToken)`	This method checks if a given certificate is trusted

- Method Detail
  - addCertificate
```
CertificateToken addCertificate(CertificateToken certificate)
```
    This method allows to manually add any certificate to the source. The type of the source is automatically set par each specific implementation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    certificate - the certificate you have to trust
    
    Returns:
    
    the corresponding certificate token
  - getCertificateSourceType
```
CertificateSourceType getCertificateSourceType()
```
    This method returns the certificate source type associated to the implementation class.
    
    Returns:
    
    the certificate origin
  - getCertificates
```
List<CertificateToken> getCertificates()
```
    Retrieves the unmodifiable list of all certificate tokens from this source.
    
    Returns:
    
    all certificates from this source
  - isTrusted
```
boolean isTrusted(CertificateToken certificateToken)
```
    This method checks if a given certificate is trusted
    
    Parameters:
    
    certificateToken - the certificate to be tested
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the certificate is trusted