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Transition from Email.GetSignedByCertChain to Email.LastSignerCert

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated GetSignedByCertChain method calls with LastSignerCert.

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SQL Server
-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- ...
    -- ...

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

    DECLARE @certChainObj int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetSignedByCertChain', @certChainObj OUT
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END

    -- ...
    -- ...

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @certChainObj

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

    DECLARE @signerCert int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Cert', @signerCert OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LastSignerCert', @success OUT, 0, @signerCert
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @signerCert
        RETURN
      END

    -- Get the certificate chain from the signer certificate.
    DECLARE @certChain int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.CertChain', @certChain OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @signerCert, 'BuildCertChain', @success OUT, @certChain
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @signerCert, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @signerCert
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @certChain
        RETURN
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @signerCert
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @certChain


END
GO