org.verapdf.pdfa

Interface PDFAValidator

public interface PDFAValidator

A PDFAValidator performs a series of checks on PDF/A documents to verify that the document conforms to a specific PDF/A flavour. Note that the interface makes no provision for configuration of a validator instance. This is left to the implementer although the veraPDF library API provides a Validators class. This is designed to allow immutable validator instances, meaning there is no methods provided to change the ValidationProfile, or the pre-configured settings.

Author:

Maksim Bezrukov

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ValidationProfile	getProfile() Returns the complete ValidationProfile enforced by this PDFAValidator.
ValidationResult	validate(PDFParser toValidate) This method validates an InputStream, presumably believed to be a PDF/A document of a specific flavour that matches the ValidationProfile supported by the PDFAValidator instance.

Method Detail

getProfile

ValidationProfile getProfile()

Returns the complete ValidationProfile enforced by this PDFAValidator.

Returns:

this PDFAValidator instance's ValiationProfile

validate

ValidationResult validate(PDFParser toValidate)
                          throws ValidationException,
                                 ModelParsingException

This method validates an InputStream, presumably believed to be a PDF/A document of a specific flavour that matches the ValidationProfile supported by the PDFAValidator instance.

Parameters:

toValidate - a InputStream to be validated

Returns:

a ValidationResult containing the result of valdiation and details of failed checks and possibly passed checks, dependant upon configuration.

Throws:

ValidationException

ModelParsingException

IllegalArgumentException - if the toValidate parameter is null PDFAValidationException if the validation process fails