How to get user's password?
You can't just create a Secret.Prompt like that. It is an object that is created by the libsecret library internally.
There is a Vala example on how to use libsecret here:
https://developer-old.gnome.org/libsecret/0.18/vala-examples.html
I will summarize the example as an answer below.
You have to first create a schema:
var example = new Secret.Schema ("org.example.Password", Secret.SchemaFlags.NONE,
"number", Secret.SchemaAttributeType.INTEGER,
"string", Secret.SchemaAttributeType.STRING,
"even", Secret.SchemaAttributeType.BOOLEAN);
Then you can store properties into the schema:
var attributes = new GLib.HashTable<string,string> ();
attributes["number"] = "8";
attributes["string"] = "eight";
attributes["even"] = "true";
Secret.password_storev.begin (example_schema, attributes, Secret.COLLECTION_DEFAULT,
"The label", "the password", null, (obj, async_res) => {
bool res = Secret.password_store.end (async_res);
/* ... do something now that the password has been stored */
});
And finally retrieve them again:
var attributes = new GLib.HashTable<string,string> ();
attributes["number"] = "8";
attributes["string"] = "eight";
attributes["even"] = "true";
Secret.password_lookupv.begin (example_schema, attributes, null, (obj, async_res) => {
string password = Secret.password_lookup.end (async_res);
});
For more details read the whole libsecret documentation at:
https://developer-old.gnome.org/libsecret/0.18/index.html