PDFAValidator (veraPDF Validation 1.22.2 API)

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable, Component

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseValidator
```
public interface PDFAValidator
extends Component
```
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

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ValidationProfile`	`getProfile()`	Returns the complete `ValidationProfile` enforced by this PDFAValidator.
`ValidationResult`	`validate(PDFAParser 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.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable
close

Methods inherited from interface org.verapdf.component.Component
getDetails

- Method Detail
  - getProfile
```
ValidationProfile getProfile()
```
    Returns the complete ValidationProfile enforced by this PDFAValidator.
    
    Returns:
    
    this PDFAValidator instance's ValiationProfile
  - validate
```
ValidationResult validate(PDFAParser toValidate)
                   throws ValidationException
```
    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, dependent upon configuration.
    
    Throws:
    
    ValidationException
    
    ModelParsingException
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if the toValidate parameter is null PDFAValidationException if the validation process fails