Sign documents with exception handling

GroupDocs.Signature provides different error messages due to validation issues, missing required data, files etc. For exception class GroupDocsSignatureException is being used.

Here are the steps to handle exceptions from GroupDocs.Signature:

This example shows how to handle GroupDocs.Signature exceptions.

try
{
    Signature signature = new Signature("sample.xlsx");
     
    DigitalSignOptions options = new DigitalSignOptions();
    options.setCertificateGuid("certificate.pfx");
    options.setImageFilePath("image.png");
    // skip password specification
    //options.setPassword("123456780");
         
    // sign document to file
    signature.sign("signed.xlsx", options);
 
}
catch (GroupDocsSignatureException ex)
{
    System.out.println("GroupDocs Signature Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    System.out.println("System Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
}

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GitHub Examples 

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

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