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IWon
IWon

Reputation: 31

VSCode Extension Authoring - Storage for app secrets?

I am working on an extension that needs to authenticate using OAuth. Is there a storage space in vscode namespace where app secret and access tokens can be stored securely? If not, any suggestions? Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1568

Answers (3)

Leor
Leor

Reputation: 1712

Yes, the SecretStorage utility is provided for that. Secrets are persisted across reloads and are independent of the current opened workspace.

API documentation

Upvotes: 3

Muhammad Numan
Muhammad Numan

Reputation: 25363

If you don't want the user to see this string after you store (like in User Settings, you should use context.globalState.

Example Extension Tagged Comment.

This is how it stores the value:

context.globalState.update('lastTagged', str);

This is how it loads the value:

let lastTagged = context.globalState.get('lastTagged', '');

Upvotes: 0

LazarusX
LazarusX

Reputation: 2735

TL;DR. No, as of November 2017.

There are some discussions on the credential API for Visual Studio Code extensions(#15414, #31131), but as of November 2017, this feature is stalled and not planned in the near future.

As a workround, you can check globalState and workspaceState in vscode.ExtensionContext as the solution to store data, but you might need to handle encryption/decryption yourself.

Upvotes: 1

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