corda / net.corda.core.flows / Destination

Destination

@DoNotImplement interface Destination

An abstraction for flow session destinations. A flow can send to and receive from objects which implement this interface. The specifics of how the messages are routed depend on the implementation.

Corda currently only supports a fixed set of destination types, namely Party and AnonymousParty. New destination types will be added in future releases.

Inheritors

AbstractParty

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.

abstract class AbstractParty : Destination

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.

class AnonymousParty : Destination, AbstractParty

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.

class Party : Destination, AbstractParty