Method

EDataServerSourceAuthenticationget_method

since: 3.6

Declaration [src]

const gchar*
e_source_authentication_get_method (
  ESourceAuthentication* extension
)

Description [src]

Returns the authentication method for a remote account. There are no pre-defined method names; backends are free to set this however they wish. If authentication is not required for a remote account, the convention is to set ESourceAuthentication:method to “none”.

Available since: 3.6

Return value

Type: const gchar*

The authentication method for a remote account.

The returned data is owned by the instance.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.