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donaldp
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7 years ago
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AuthException when already have token

Have got authorisation via login working, :-) but am having issues when re-using the token (i.e. bypassing having to login again). I'm getting... Exception thrown: 'Dropbox.Api.AuthException' in Dro...
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    donaldp
    7 years ago

    OMG. Unbelievable. I put in a whole bunch of debug writelines, every single time something related happens - when I've got the token, when I've saved it, when I'm retrieving it, every time anything at all happens with the token to try and find where the token is different - and when I ran it, it was working!!!! Same token, start to finish, client call works now. I never touched any actual code, just put in a whole bunch of debug statements, and it's just decided to start working. ARGH! Hair-tearing frustration, and it just decides to start working just like that.

    (sigh) Well, at least now it's working. Thanks for your time Greg. Hopefully have some smooth sailing from here (though the fact that it just started working without me changing any actual code is worrying that it may just stop working again)...

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Dropbox API access tokens currently don't expire automatically, so you should be able to store and re-use them like this. Note that they can be revoked by the user or app at any time though.

Can you inspect the AuthException you're getting? It inherits from StructuredException<AuthError>. The AuthError should more specifically indicate the reason for the failure.

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donaldp
Collaborator | Level 9
7 years ago

Leave this with me for the moment. For some reason I'm getting a different token when I get it from settings. Need to step through this and try and find how that is happenning. Will let you know how I go (now that I've finally found why it was telling me it was invalid!).

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