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Find a Certificate in the "Other People" Windows Certificate Store

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Demonstrates how to open the "Current User --> Other People" Windows certificate store, and locates a certificate matching an email address.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkCertStore certStore = new CkCertStore();

    //  The "AddressBook" is the "Other People" certificate store as shown in certmgr.msc
    boolean readOnly = true;
    success = certStore.OpenWindowsStore("CurrentUser","AddressBook",readOnly);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, certStore.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Find the certificate for the email address:
    CkJsonObject jsonE = new CkJsonObject();
    jsonE.UpdateString("email","joe@example.com");

    CkCert cert = new CkCert();
    success = certStore.FindCert(jsonE,cert);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, certStore.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Found certificate: " + cert.subjectDN());

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}