Expectations for Grilo plugins that require passwords

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

I am working on a DMAP plugin for Grilo [1] and have a question about
service passwords. I know that Grilo provides a GrlConfig API that
allows an application to provide a password to a Grilo plugin. However,
with DMAP the use of passwords are generally more dynamic. What I mean
is that an application (more specifically, Grilo) should notice that
a password is required for a share and then it should prompt the user
for one (perhaps using an application-serviced signal). Once this is done,
the application can store the password for future use.

Is there any way to support this case? That is, neither the application
nor the user anticipates the requirement for a password. Instead, Grilo
learns that a password is required after observing a DNS-SD record
(I think the applications should not be directly aware of DNS-SD; only
Grilo should be).

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652516

-- 
Mike

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