[MacRuby-devel] retrieving password from keychain

[Karl Varga]

Thanks for the reply Laurent.  Yes I did generate a BridgeSupport file
and included it in my build.  I did try to call the method and pass in
a pointer for the item reference (using Pointer.new_for_type('@')) but
the object that was assigned after the call was some weird NSCFType
object which, when I googled it, basically translates to "you're
screwed" :)   I do get some malloc warnings when I include the
bridgesupport file so I was a bit uneasy about the whole thing.

I'll try writing my own Objective-C class.  I'm looking forward to
getting past this issue.

Cheers,
Karl

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> On Apr 19, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Karl Varga wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am having a strange problem that other people don't seem to be
>> having because I can't find any references to in google searches.  I
>> am using MacRuby 0.4 installed from the binary available on the
>> macruby binary releases page (MacRuby version 0.4 (ruby 1.9.1)
>> [universal-darwin9.5, x86_64])
>>
>> I have an application which stores username/passwords in the keychain.
>> I can add items to the keychain (so I can call
>> SecKeychainAddGenericPassword() fine and therefore I think my setup
>> must be OK), but I cannot retrieve them.  When I call:
>>
>>   status, *data = SecKeychainFindGenericPassword(
>>       nil, service.length, service, username.length, username)
>>
>> I get an error:
>>
>> Configuration.app/Contents/Resources/Controller.rb:99:in
>> `SecKeychainFindGenericPassword': wrong number of arguments (5 for 8)
>> (ArgumentError)
>>
>> The method signature is this:
>>
>> OSStatus SecKeychainFindGenericPassword (
>>  CFTypeRef keychainOrArray,
>>  UInt32 serviceNameLength,
>>  const char *serviceName,
>>  UInt32 accountNameLength,
>>  const char *accountName,
>>  UInt32 *passwordLength,
>>  void **passwordData,
>>  SecKeychainItemRef *itemRef
>> );
>>
>>
>> All the examples I've read suggest that this method in macruby should
>> only take 5 args and return the status, password length, password
>> string and item reference (the last 3 extracted from *data) instead of
>> passing in pointers (which I don't know how to do BTW).
>>
>> What gives?  Anyone have any idea or had the same problem?
>
> I am surprised you were able to call SecKeychainFindGenericPassword() from
> MacRuby, did you generate a BridgeSupport file for the Security framework?
>
> As for your question, MacRuby currently doesn't support the RubyCocoa way of
> dealing with returned-by-reference arguments (which is what you're trying to
> do I think), so you must allocate Pointer objects instead. In the case of
> this call it may be painful, so I would recommend to wrap this in an
> Objective-C class in the interim and use that class from MacRuby.
>
> HTH,
> Laurent
>



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