/*
* Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
*/
/*
* $Id: SignatureProperties.java,v 1.4 2005/05/10 16:03:46 mullan Exp $
*/
package javax.xml.crypto.dsig;
import javax.xml.crypto.XMLStructure;
import java.util.List;
/**
* A representation of the XML <code>SignatureProperties</code> element as
* defined in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">
* W3C Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing</a>.
* The XML Schema Definition is defined as:
* <pre><code>
*<element name="SignatureProperties" type="ds:SignaturePropertiesType"/>
* <complexType name="SignaturePropertiesType">
* <sequence>
* <element ref="ds:SignatureProperty" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
* </sequence>
* <attribute name="Id" type="ID" use="optional"/>
* </complexType>
* </code></pre>
*
* A <code>SignatureProperties</code> instance may be created by invoking the
* {@link XMLSignatureFactory#newSignatureProperties newSignatureProperties}
* method of the {@link XMLSignatureFactory} class; for example:
*
* <pre>
* XMLSignatureFactory factory = XMLSignatureFactory.getInstance("DOM");
* SignatureProperties properties =
* factory.newSignatureProperties(props, "signature-properties-1");
* </pre>
*
* @author Sean Mullan
* @author JSR 105 Expert Group
* @since 1.6
* @see XMLSignatureFactory#newSignatureProperties(List, String)
* @see SignatureProperty
*/
public interface SignatureProperties extends XMLStructure {
/**
* URI that identifies the <code>SignatureProperties</code> element (this
* can be specified as the value of the <code>type</code> parameter of the
* {@link Reference} class to identify the referent's type).
*/
final static String TYPE =
"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#SignatureProperties";
/**
* Returns the Id of this <code>SignatureProperties</code>.
*
* @return the Id of this <code>SignatureProperties</code> (or
* <code>null</code> if not specified)
*/
String getId();
/**
* Returns an {@link java.util.Collections#unmodifiableList unmodifiable
* list} of one or more {@link SignatureProperty}s that are contained in
* this <code>SignatureProperties</code>.
*
* @return an unmodifiable list of one or more
* <code>SignatureProperty</code>s
*/
List getProperties();
}