pgpainless/pgpainless-core/src/main/java/org/pgpainless/decryption_verification/cleartext_signatures/MultiPassStrategy.java

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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Paul Schaub <vanitasvitae@fsfe.org>
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
package org.pgpainless.decryption_verification.cleartext_signatures;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
/**
* Since the {@link CleartextSignatureProcessor} needs to read the whole data twice in order to verify signatures,
* a strategy for how to cache the read data is required.
* Otherwise large data kept in memory could cause {@link OutOfMemoryError OutOfMemoryErrors} or other issues.
*
* This is an Interface that describes a strategy to deal with the fact that detached signatures require multiple passes
* to do verification.
*
* This interface can be used to write the signed data stream out via {@link #getMessageOutputStream()} and later
* get access to the data again via {@link #getMessageInputStream()}.
* Thereby the detail where the data is being stored (memory, file, etc.) can be abstracted away.
*/
public interface MultiPassStrategy {
/**
* Provide an {@link OutputStream} into which the signed data can be read into.
*
* @return output stream
* @throws IOException io error
*/
OutputStream getMessageOutputStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Provide an {@link InputStream} which contains the data that was previously written away in
* {@link #getMessageOutputStream()}.
*
* As there may be multiple signatures that need to be processed, each call of this method MUST return
* a new {@link InputStream}.
*
* @return input stream
* @throws IOException io error
*/
InputStream getMessageInputStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Write the message content out to a file and re-read it to verify signatures.
* This strategy is best suited for larger messages (eg. plaintext signed files) which might not fit into memory.
* After the message has been processed completely, the messages content are available at the provided file.
*
* @param file target file
* @return strategy
*/
static MultiPassStrategy writeMessageToFile(File file) {
return new WriteToFileMultiPassStrategy(file);
}
/**
* Read the message content into memory.
* This strategy is best suited for small messages which fit into memory.
* After the message has been processed completely, the message content can be accessed by calling
* {@link ByteArrayOutputStream#toByteArray()} on {@link #getMessageOutputStream()}.
*
* @return strategy
*/
static InMemoryMultiPassStrategy keepMessageInMemory() {
return new InMemoryMultiPassStrategy();
}
}