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rr z.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

java sdk: "error": "The given OAuth 2 access token doesn't exist or has expired."

hello, my application runs non stop (daemon) and checks every 10 seconds if a file has changed (lastmodified) the application works well, but after some time (1 - 2 days) the token seems to be ...
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rr z.'s avatar
rr z.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

hello,

it seems that this still happens.
I am now sure that my application works correctly.

at 15-04-14 08:25:19 (central european time) i created a new token through the app console "generate access token" function and restarted my application

at 15-04-14 20:22:49 the java sdk throws the following exception:

  Caused by: {"error": "The given OAuth 2 access token doesn't exist or has expired."}
    com.dropbox.core.DbxRequestUtil.unexpectedStatus(DbxRequestUtil.java:208)
    com.dropbox.core.DbxClient$2.handle(DbxClient.java:186)
    com.dropbox.core.DbxRequestUtil.doGet(DbxRequestUtil.java:242)
    com.dropbox.core.DbxClient.doGet(DbxClient.java:1942)
    com.dropbox.core.DbxClient.getMetadataWithChildrenBase(DbxClient.java:181)
    com.dropbox.core.DbxClient.getMetadataWithChildren(DbxClient.java:148)

it seems that the token has been invalidated after 12 hours.

i am pretty sure that i did not invalidate it.

this is pretty annoying. because it makes the usage of dropbox for this kind of applications unpredictable.

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