Using the APIs to protect a document on behalf of another user

Do the following so you can protect a document on behalf of another user and without attaining the permissions to edit the document:

  1. Create a policy set. For example, PolicySet1.

  2. Create a policy in the newly created policy set. For example, Policy1 in PolicySet1.

  3. Create a user with role Rights Management End User. For example, User1. Provide the permissions to view documents protected using Policy1 to the newly created user.

  4. Create a role. For example, Role1. Provide the Service Invoke permission to the newly created role. Create a user with newly created role. For example, User2. You can use User2 or an administrator to create SDK connection and invoke the protectDocument service.

    Now, you can run the following sample code to protect a document without providing permissions to edit the document to the user protecting the document:

    
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.util.Properties;
    
    import com.adobe.edc.common.dto.PublishLicenseDTO;
    import com.adobe.edc.sdk.SDKException;
    import com.adobe.idp.Document;
    import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactory;
    import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactoryProperties;
    import com.adobe.livecycle.rightsmanagement.RMSecureDocumentResult;
    import com.adobe.livecycle.rightsmanagement.client.DocumentManager;
    import com.adobe.livecycle.rightsmanagement.client.RightsManagementClient;
    import com.adobe.livecycle.rightsmanagement.client.RightsManagementClient2;
    
    public class PublishAsProtectAPI {
    
    private static final String unprotectedFileName = "C:\\unprotected.pdf";
    private static final String protectedFileName = "C:\\protect.pdf";
    private static final String coverFileName = "C:\\CoverPage.pdf";
    private static final String POLICY_ID = "2EF66008-5E2D-1034-9B06-00000A292C18";
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    
    try {
    
    Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
    connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_DEFAULT_SOAP_ENDPOINT,"http://localhost:8080");
    connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL,ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SOAP_PROTOCOL);
    connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SERVER_TYPE, "JBoss");
    connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME,"administrator");
    connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD,"password");
    
    // Create a ServiceClientFactory instance
    ServiceClientFactory factory = ServiceClientFactory.createInstance(connectionProps);
    testProtectDocument(factory);
    testProtectDocumentWithCoverPage(factory);
    testProtectDocumentJavaPPL(factory);
    
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace(); }
    }
    
    private static void testProtectDocument(ServiceClientFactory factory) throws FileNotFoundException, SDKException {
    // Create a RightsManagementClient object
    RightsManagementClient rmClient = new RightsManagementClient(factory);
    // Create a Document Manager object
    DocumentManager documentManager = rmClient.getDocumentManager();
    //Reference a policy-protected PDF document from which to remove a policy
    FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(unprotectedFileName);
    Document inPDF = new Document(is);
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    //Remove a policy from the policy-protected PDF document
    RMSecureDocumentResult securePDF = documentManager.protectDocument(inPDF, "test", "newPolicySet", "latest", "DefaultDom", "administrator", null, true);
    System.out.println("Total Time taken for protectDocument = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime));
    //Save the unsecured PDF document
    File myFile = new File(protectedFileName);
    securePDF.getProtectedDoc().copyToFile(myFile);
    }
    
    private static void testProtectDocumentWithCoverPage(ServiceClientFactory factory) throws FileNotFoundException, SDKException {
    // Create a RightsManagementClient object
    RightsManagementClient rmClient = new RightsManagementClient(factory);
    // Create a Document Manager object
    DocumentManager documentManager = rmClient.getDocumentManager();
    //Reference a policy-protected PDF document from which to remove a policy
    FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(unprotectedFileName);
    Document inPDF = new Document(is);
    FileInputStream coverIS = new FileInputStream(coverFileName);
    Document inCoverPDF = new Document(coverIS);
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    //Remove a policy from the policy-protected PDF document
    RMSecureDocumentResult securePDF = documentManager.protectDocumentWithCoverPage(inPDF, "test", "newPolicySet", "latestPolicy", inCoverPDF, true);
    System.out.println("Total Time taken for Page0ProtectDocument = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime));
    //Save the unsecured PDF document
    File myFile = new File(protectedFileName);
    securePDF.getProtectedDoc().copyToFile(myFile);
    }
    
    private static PublishLicenseDTO testProtectDocumentJavaPPL (ServiceClientFactory factory) throws SDKException, FileNotFoundException, IOException {
    // Create a RightsManagementClient object
    RightsManagementClient2 rmClient2 = new RightsManagementClient2(factory);
    // Create a Document Manager object
    DocumentManager documentManager = rmClient2.getDocumentManager();
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    PublishLicenseDTO license = documentManager.createLicense(POLICY_ID, "Out.pdf", true);
    System.out.println("Create License totalTime = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime));
    startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    // Reference a PDF document to which a policy is applied
    InputStream inputFileStream = new FileInputStream(unprotectedFileName);
    // Apply a policy to the PDF document
    InputStream protectPDF = rmClient2.getRightsManagementEncryptionService().protectDocument(inputFileStream, license);
    // Save the policy-protected PDF document
    File myFile = new File(protectedFileName);
    // write the inputStream to a FileOutputStream
    FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(myFile);
    int read = 0;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
    while ((read = protectPDF.read(bytes)) != -1) {
    outputStream.write(bytes, 0, read);
    }
    System.out.println("protectPDFDocument totalTime = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime));
    outputStream.close();
    inputFileStream.close();
    System.out.println("Document Protected Successfully");
    return license;
    }
    }
    

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