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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Re: What's the correct way to handle expired access token

Greg-DB wrote:

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It looks like you're using the Dropbox Java SDK, so if you're interested, you can see where the Java SDK handles this error internally for you here.

Greg, it's almost impossible code flow to reach to there (or should be, at least). It's something like emergency way, used by exception if something in regular flow fails. Regular refresh happens here. 🙂

It's better serialization to be performed using the appropriate writer, part of the credential object, not fetching the fields one by one. 😉 Updating access token without moment of expiration is meaningless.

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