DRM Helper API: API description

DRM Helper API: API description
- Use cases
- API class structure

DRM Helper API is intended for applications, which need to deal with DRM protected content. It can be categorized as a library API and its type is a method call interface.

Use cases

DRM Helper API can be used for the following use cases:

Handling errors related to invalid rights
Checking status of the rights
Getting rights details
Registering DRM protected content for automated use
Getting a list of DRM protected contents
Handling DRM supported MIME-type list
Getting information about supported DRM methods
Controlling rights consumption
Activating content
Handling previews
Handling information URL

API class structure

The main classes of DRM Helper API are displayed in Figure 1:

Figure 1: Class diagram of DRM Helper API