Re: gnome-keyring Error using a newly created keyring

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 2011-11-21 13:02, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 01:10 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> > I'm calling gnome_keyring_create_sync() to create a new keyring named
> > "signon-test". The call succeeds (no error code).
> > But then, all methods on the newly created keyring return error 4 ("No
> > such keyring"). Am I missing something?
>
> I just went to the GNOME keyring UI and checked the situation: I had a
> few keyrings named signon-test_<number>  (indeed, I executed my
> application several times -- though I wouldn't expect many keyrings to
> be created); I could delete all of them, but two ("signon-test" and
> "signon-test_2"), which had a different icon, no name, and the key IDs
> are "signon-test" and "signon-test2". I couldn't delete them from the UI.

Which UI is it? 'Passwords and Keys' (ie: seahorse)?

> That seems all very strange. Is it a tested scenario, using the GNOME
> keyring APIs with different keyrings than the default one?

It should work. Although there are some issues matching the old crufty 
libgnome-keyring API, with the new Secret Service DBus API. See the 
comment in create_keyring_start(). Could you share your test 
application? I can try and reproduce your problem.

I'd like to work with you to figure this out. Can you join us on 
gimp.net #keyring some time?

> (I don't really need to use a different keyring than the default in my
> application; but for the unit tests, I wouldn't like to play with the
> real keyring, so I'd like my tests to be executed on a different one)

It does sound like a good plan. Do you just need one keyring in you 
tests, or multiple keyrings and broader testing?

Because if it's the latter, then I've done two different things:

 * in libgnome-keyring we run gnome-keyring-daemon in an alternate
   directory and on an alternate dbus path:


http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome-keyring/tree/library/tests/test-keyrings.c#n674

 * in the gsecret library (work in progress) I'm writing a mock secret
   service in python, which can be used to test secret service
   implementations:


http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/stefw/gsecret.git/tree/library/tests/mock

Cheers,

Stef