Secret.Value.new
Description: Reference for Secret.Value.new

### Function

# Secret Valuenew

#### Declaration [src]

    SecretValue*
    secret_value_new (
      const gchar* secret,
      gssize length,
      const gchar* content_type
    )

#### Description [src]

Create a `SecretValue` for the secret data passed in.

The secret data is copied into non-pageable ‘secure’ memory.

If the length is less than zero, then `secret` is assumed to be null-terminated.

#### Parameters

`secret`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The secret data.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`length`

  Type: `gssize`

  The length of the data.

`content_type`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The content type of the data.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `SecretValue`

The new `SecretValue`.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.