Creating a package (Object reference not set to an instance of an object)

You wouldn't have to build your package as you showed in your last post. That's just the makeup of the simple "all-in-one" examples that we usually show. You could add signers dynamically to a package after building the document package. For example:

DocumentPackage superDuperPackage =
PackageBuilder.NewPackageNamed(“Test Package .NET”)
.WithSettings(DocumentPackageSettingsBuilder
.NewDocumentPackageSettings()))
.Build();

Signer mysigner = SignerBuilder.NewSignerWithEmail("[email protected]")
                                .WithFirstName("FName")
                                .WithLastName("LName").Build();

superDuperPackage.addSigner(mysigner);

Then, you could do the same with documents. You could even build your signers dynamically into a collection like you were doing above and should be able to add them all at once with something like:

superDuperPackage.getSigners().addAll(Collection);

I've not tried the last one, but it should work. Let me know.

Try building your signer like this instead and see if it fixes that error.

Signer mysigner = SignerBuilder.NewSignerWithEmail("[email protected]")
                                .WithFirstName("FName")
                                .WithLastName("LName").Build();

You might need to go to a SignatureBuilder for your signature, too. Let me know if this solves this error.

Michael, Thanks for you answer. It actually works, however, I realize that this methods assumes that one wants to create a document package in only 1 line of code (see your example that I pasted below). In my case, I am building my package dynamically and I need to be able to assign x signers with y documents. Does that make sense ? That's why I was taking the approach mentioned in my original post. Regards, Frederic DocumentPackage superDuperPackage = PackageBuilder.NewPackageNamed("Test Package .NET") .WithSettings(DocumentPackageSettingsBuilder .NewDocumentPackageSettings()) .WithSigner(SignerBuilder .NewSignerWithEmail("[email protected]") .WithFirstName("Frederic") .WithLastName("Frederic")) .WithDocument(DocumentBuilder .NewDocumentNamed("sampleAgreement") .FromStream(fs, DocumentType.PDF) .WithSignature(SignatureBuilder .SignatureFor("[email protected]") .OnPage(0) .AtPosition(72, 144))) .Build();

Michael, Thank your for your help. While your example sounds like it would fix my issue, it doesn't seem that I can access those functions (addsigner() and getsigners()). My Silanis SDL is v11.0, do I have an old DLL ? Frederic

Oops. Sorry. I was in Java. :\. With the .NET SDK, you'd have to do the first way I said. The collection way doesn't seem to exist. My apologies. superDuperPackage.Signers.Add(mysigner);

Michael, No problem, Im sure youre constantly juggling between the two languages HA! :-) I'll try that and will keep you posted so that future people can beneficiate from this thread Frederic

Sounds good! Thank you!

Michael, Thanks, it worked after some "tweaking around"! Regards, Frederic

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