Re: [Tracker] Discussing the API of libtracker-miner

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2009/8/17 Adrien Bustany <madcat mymadcat com>:
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> 3. Credentials storage
> Note : this might not belong to libtracker-miner... Discussion is open!
> To connect to the webservice, you generally need a token or a
> user/pass tuple. Sometimes, you also need to store additionnal data,
> so a simple user/pass API is not enough. Again, things should be
> hidden by an interface.
> I currently use something like (vala syntax) :
> string get_password (string token_name, out HashTable<string, string>?
> user_data) throws GLib.Error;
> void forget_password (string token_name);
> void store_password (string token_name, string password,
> HashTable<string, string>? user_data) throws GLib.Error;

Perhaps http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec
is what you want. It is Gnome/KDE agnostic spec at least. Development
seems good, but of course it is not something you can apply *now*.
According to the mail Stef Walter sent to desktop-devel he targets
Gnome 2.30.

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Cheers,
Mikkel