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phunction
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
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Gettng a refresh token from GetAuthorizeUri

Hi, I am trying to convert my .net code (used for the old non expiring tokens) to get a refresh token. In this part: var authorizeUri = DropboxOAuth2Helper.GetAuthorizeUri(OAuthResponseType.Token, ...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    4 years ago
    phunction wrote:

    ...  Is there a way they can just authorize my app so I don't have to deal with the login part? ...

    phunction  take a look on the line where refresh token is referred to. Once you got to this token, next time you can skip actual login part and process directly the client creation. Owning the token keeps you (your application actually) logged in corresponding account, where you have logged in already before. 😉

     

    Greg-DB  may be a good idea new feature providing serialization/deserialization of current client tokens status. This would provide an easier way for managing most recent state (keep/restore). Is .NET SDK the only kit that missing this feature? 🤔

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

No, no,... That's not a setting either on your application in console or anything else. It's the workflow on authorization supported by Dropbox and selected by you eventually. As an example, again on the same file, take a look here. You can see example of PKCE usage. You have used something similar on initial authentication. 🤔 What actually? 🧐 That's it. 😉

Hope this clarifies matter.

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phunction
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Interesting, I don't actually specify that, I am using whatever this uses:

DropboxOAuth2Helper.GetAuthorizeUri

But I have not been able to find what that is defaulting to.

 

Also, just to double check, once I have the refresh token, I just need to keep reusing that and it will not expire for a while?

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    phunction You can find the default parameter values for GetAuthorizeUri in the documentation here.

     

    And that's correct, you can re-use refresh tokens; refresh tokens don't expire by themselves (though they can be revoked by the app or user on demand).

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