Re: Display TLS certificate in the GUI

[Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de>]

On 28.06.2016 08:19, philip chimento gmail com wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 8:06 AM Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de
> <mailto:jay strict posteo de>> wrote:
> >     ======================================================================
> >     (gnome-shell:543): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error: Unable to introspect
> >     element-type of container in GValue
> >     ======================================================================
> >
> >
> >     Can someone help me understand this error message?

> Unfortunately, it means that you can't use that property in GJS. The
> documentation for that property from the C API [1] says it is of type
> GByteArray*, and the GJS source code seems to suggest that such values
> are explicitly not yet supported in GJS [2].

> If you just wanted the data you could use the 'certificate-pem' property
> [3]. As the documentation states, "This property and the “certificate”
> property represent the same data, just in different forms."
>
> However, it seems like you can't construct a Gcr.Certificate object from
> the PEM-encoded data. I don't have a good solution for this.
>
> [1]
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GTlsCertificate.html#GTlsCertificate--certificate 
> [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/tree/gi/value.cpp#n875
> [3] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GTlsCertificate.html#GTlsCertificate--certificate-pem


I see. Thank you for the thorough explanation.
I will try to parse the PEM data myself and show it to the user in a
home-made widget then.


Kind regards,
Jay