org.opensaml.xmlsec.signature.support

Interface SignaturePrevalidator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChainingSignaturePrevalidator, SAMLSignatureProfileValidator

public interface SignaturePrevalidator

An interface for components which perform some pre-validation processing on an XML Signature instance, for example to validate that the signature confirms to a particular profile of XML Signature.

Note that implementations of this interface are NOT used to perform the actual cryptographic validation of the signature against key material. For that see SignatureValidator.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	validate(Signature signature) Validate the signature according to the requirements represented by the validator.

Method Detail

validate

void validate(@Nonnull
              Signature signature)
       throws SignatureException

Validate the signature according to the requirements represented by the validator.

Parameters:

signature - the signature to evaluate

Throws:

SignatureException - if the signature does not meet the validator's requirements