⚠ This SDK has been deprecated ⚠

This SDK is now deprecated and will no longer receive feature updates or bug fixes. Security fixes will still be applied as needed.

The new dropbox-sign SDK can be found at hellosign/dropbox-sign-java!

The new SDK and this legacy SDK are not backwards-compatible!

Please see here for a comprehensive migration guide.

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HelloSign Java SDK

Get your Java app connected to HelloSign's API in jiffy.

To build this project you'll need JDK 9+ but the release artifacts support JRE 8+.

Installing

SDK releases are published to Maven's Central repository:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.hellosign</groupId>
  <artifactId>hellosign-java-sdk</artifactId>
  <version>RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Releases can also be consumed using other build tools that support Maven Central.

Gradle for example:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile group: 'com.hellosign', name: 'hellosign-java-sdk', version:'RELEASE'
}

Alternatively, you can build the JAR yourself:

./gradlew jar

or a fatJar with all dependencies if you'd like:

./gradlew fatJar

Place build/libs/hellosign-java-sdk-<VERSION>.jar on your project classpath.

Usage

First initialize an instance of the HelloSignClient with your API key:

HelloSignClient client = new HelloSignClient(apiKey);

Send a Signature Request

SignatureRequest request = new SignatureRequest();
request.setSubject("NDA");
request.setMessage("Hi Jack, Please sign this NDA and let's discuss.");
request.addSigner("jack@example.com", "Jack");
request.addFile(new File("nda.pdf"));

SignatureRequest response = client.sendSignatureRequest(request);
System.out.println(response.toString());

Add Signer Fields to a Signature Request

SignatureRequest request = new SignatureRequest();
Document doc = new Document();
doc.setFile(new File("/path/to/myfile.pdf")));

FormField textField = new FormField();
textField.setType(FieldType.TEXT);
textField.setName("First Name"); // Displayed to the signer as the "Field Label"
textField.setValidationType(ValidationType.letters_only);
textField.setSigner(0); // Signer indexes are zero-based
textField.setHeight(25);
textField.setWidth(300);
textField.setIsRequired(true);
textField.setPage(1); // 1-based indexing, relative to the document
textField.setX(100);
textField.setY(100);

doc.addFormField(textField);
request.addDocument(doc);

Retrieve Templates

TemplateList templateList = client.getTemplates();
for (Template template : templateList) {
    System.out.println(template.getTitle());
}

Or filter the paged list:

TemplateList templateList = client.getTemplates();
List<Template> filteredList = templateList.filterCurrentPageBy(Template.TEMPLATE_TITLE, "W-2 Template");
for (Template template : filteredList) {
    System.out.println(template.getTitle());
}

Send a Templated Signature Request

TemplateSignatureRequest request = new TemplateSignatureRequest();
request.setTemplateId(templateId);
request.setSigner("Client", "george@example.com", "George");
request.setCC("Accounting", "accounting@hellosign.com");
request.addCustomFieldValue("Cost", "$20,000");

SignatureRequest response = client.sendTemplateSignatureRequest(request);
System.out.println(response.toString());

Check Signature Request Status

While we encourage you to take advantage of our callback functionality, you can also retrieve the status of a specific request:

SignatureRequest response = client.getSignatureRequest(signatureRequestId);
if (response.isComplete()) {
    System.out.println("All signers have signed this request.");
} else {
    for (Signature signature : response.getSignatures()) {
        System.out.println(signature.getStatusString());
    }
}

Reference

• JavaDoc API Reference
• HelloSign API Documentation
• Sample JSP web application

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2020 hellosign.com

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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