(Perl) Transition from Crypt2.GetSignerCertChain to Crypt2.LastSignerCert

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated GetSignerCertChain method calls with LastSignerCert.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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use chilkat();

$crypt2 = chilkat::CkCrypt2->new();

# ...
# ...
$index = 0;

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The GetSignerCertChain method is deprecated:

# certchainObj is a CertChain
$certchainObj = $crypt2->GetSignerCertChain($index);
if ($crypt2->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $crypt2->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# ...
# ...

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do the equivalent using LastSignerCert, and then get the certificate chain from the cert.
# Your application creates a new, empty Cert object which is passed 
# in the last argument and filled upon success.

$signerCert = chilkat::CkCert->new();
$success = $crypt2->LastSignerCert($index,$signerCert);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $crypt2->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$certChain = chilkat::CkCertChain->new();
$success = $signerCert->BuildCertChain($certChain);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $signerCert->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}