AbstractParty

Companion

<init>

An AbstractParty contains the common elements of Party and AnonymousParty, specifically the owning key of the party. In most cases Party or AnonymousParty should be used, depending on use-case.

owningKey

equals

Anonymised parties do not include any detail apart from owning key, so equality is dependent solely on the key

hashCode

nameOrNull

ref

Build a reference to something being stored or issued by a party e.g. in a vault or (more likely) on their normal ledger.

interner

AnonymousParty

The AnonymousParty class contains enough information to uniquely identify a Party while excluding private information such as name. It is intended to represent a party on the distributed ledger.

Party

The Party class represents an entity on the network, which is typically identified by a legal name and public key that it can sign transactions under. As parties may use multiple keys for signing and, for example, have offline backup keys, the "public key" of a party can be represented by a composite construct – a CompositeKey, which combines multiple cryptographic public key primitives into a tree structure.