[PDFBOX-3364] PDModel.getSignatureFields() only returns top level signature fields

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.2, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: PDModel
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Maruan Sahyoun
• Created: 26/May/16 15:25
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:12
• Resolved: 26/May/16 18:36

Description

From the users mailing list

I'm tying to rewrite my code in order to use the PDFBox in place of the
current library.
First of all, thank you for the great work you are doing!

I'm trying to manage signatures of a PDFdocuments and the method that I use
to obtain the Signatures' list from the PDDocument is:

public List<PDSignature> *getSignatureDictionaries *() throws IOException

I'm in trouble with a specific signed PDF document because this method
returns an empty signature list.

The user correctly spotted that we only return top level fields and not descendant fields (as can be seen from the source code).