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Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Transition from Email.GetSignedByCertChain to Email.LastSignerCert

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated GetSignedByCertChain method calls with LastSignerCert.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

#  ...
#  ...

#  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  The GetSignedByCertChain method is deprecated:

# certChainObj is a CertChain
$certChainObj = $email->GetSignedByCertChain();
if ($email->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  ...
#  ...

#  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Do the equivalent using LastSignerCert to get the signing certificate,
#  then build the cert chain from the signing certificate object.

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

#  Get the certificate chain from the signer certificate.
$certChain = chilkat::CkCertChain->new();
$success = $signerCert->BuildCertChain($certChain);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $signerCert->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}