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Switching to refresh tokens without user input
Hello,
I'm migrating our software from long-lived access tokens to short-lived ones with refresh tokens.
My main question is is it possible to do the transition for a user who already has a no expiration token to refresh tokens without asking him to authenticate again.
As a secondary question - I asume expires_in is second, but can you please confirm this since I cannot seem to find the unit in the documentation.
Thank you in advance,
Nikola Simeonov
1 Reply
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
No, it's not possible to switch a user to short-lived access tokens/refresh tokens from long-lived access tokens without user interaction. We don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens though. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, your users can continue using their existing long-lived access token(s).
And yes, that's correct, 'expires_in' is the number of seconds. I'll ask the team to clarify that in the documentation. Thanks!
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