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    15. Implement custom serialization with QR-code signatures

    Implement custom serialization with QR-code signatures

    GroupDocs.Signature provides ability to embed into QR-code signature custom objects. This feature is implemented over object serialization to string and further encryption. There is ability to provide custom serialization. This procedure requires implementation of interface IDataSerializer with two methods to serialize (serialize) and de-serialize (deserialize) data.

    Here are the steps to embed into QR-code text with custom serialization with GroupDocs.Signature: 

    • Implement custom data encryption class that implements IDataSerializer interface. 
    • Define class with serialization attribute created in step above, specify if needed class attributes (like custom serialization attribute, custom encryption attribute), specify attributes for properties like FormatAttribute to specify serialization name and display format, same as SkipSerializationAttribute to mark property of class as not serialize 
    • Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter.
    • Create one or several objects of QrCodeSignOptions object with setData value 
    • Instantiate the  QrCodeSignOptions object according to your requirements and custom object to setData property.
    • Call sign method of Signature class instance and pass QrCodeSignOptions to it.

    This example shows how to specify custom serialization class. This class could be implemented also as Attribute (optional) to specify as class attribute.

    public class CustomSerializationAttribute implements IDataSerializer{
 
 
    public <T> T deserialize(String source, Class<T> type)
    {
        return new Gson().fromJson(source, type);
    }
    public String serialize(Object data)
    {
        return new Gson().toJson(data);
    }
 
}

    Definition of class

    This example shows how to define custom class with serialization and encryption properties and setup Format attributes for properties.

    public static class DocumentSignatureData
{
    public String getID(){ return ID; }
    public void setID(String value){ ID = value; }
    @FormatAttribute(propertyName = "SignID")
    public String ID;
 
 
    public final String getAuthor(){ return Author; }
    public final void setAuthor(String value){ Author = value; }
    @FormatAttribute(propertyName = "SAuth")
    public String Author;
    //JAVA-added public wrapper for internalized property accessor
 
    public final java.util.Date getSigned() {  return Signed; }
    public final void setSigned(java.util.Date value) { Signed = value; }
    @FormatAttribute (propertyName = "SDate",propertyFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd")
    public java.util.Date Signed = new java.util.Date();
 
 
    public final java.math.BigDecimal getDataFactor() { return DataFactor; }
    public final void setDataFactor(java.math.BigDecimal value) { DataFactor = value; }
    @FormatAttribute (propertyName = "SDFact",propertyFormat = "N2")
    public java.math.BigDecimal DataFactor = new java.math.BigDecimal(0.01);
}

    Sign documents with custom encrypted objects and values into QR-code signatures

    This example shows how to add custom object into metadata signature to Image document.

    Signature signature = new Signature("sample.pdf");
// create custom data encryption
IDataEncryption encryption = new CustomXOREncryption();
 
// create custom object
DocumentSignatureData documentSignature = new DocumentSignatureData();
documentSignature.setID(java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString());
documentSignature.setAuthor(System.getenv("USERNAME"));
documentSignature.setSigned(new java.util.Date());
documentSignature.setDataFactor(new java.math.BigDecimal("11.22"));
 
// setup QR-Code options
QrCodeSignOptions options = new QrCodeSignOptions();
// set custom object to serialize to QR Code
options.setData(documentSignature);
// QR-code type
options.setEncodeType(QrCodeTypes.QR);
// specify serialization encryption
options.setDataEncryption(encryption);
// locate and aligh signature
options.setHeight(100);
options.setWidth(100);
options.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.Bottom);
options.setHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Right);
Padding padding = new Padding() ;
padding.setRight(10);
padding.setBottom(10);
options.setMargin(padding);
 
// sign document to file
SignResult signResult = signature.sign("QRCodeCustomSerialization.pdf", options);
// analyzing result
System.out.print("List of newly created signatures:");
int number = 1;
for(BaseSignature temp : signResult.getSucceeded())
{
    System.out.print("Signature #"+ number++ +": Type: "+temp.getSignatureType()+" Id:"+temp.getSignatureId()+
            ",Location: "+temp.getLeft()+"x"+temp.getTop()+". Size: "+temp.getWidth()+"x"+temp.getHeight());
}

    More resources

    GitHub Examples 

    You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

    Free Online App 

    Along with full-featured .NET library we provide simple, but powerful free Apps.
    You are welcome to eSign PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents with free to use online GroupDocs Signature App.

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