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Vicne
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Dropbox not sending refresh_token using new OAuth2 flow
Hi,
(Sorry I first posted this as a reply to this "solved" topic, which was a bad idea because it's mostly unrelated)
I'm developing a "native" app (called Ginj), and started Dropbox inte...
- 5 years ago
We recommend just using the official SDKs whenever possible, as they'll do most of the work for you, but you can certainly use the HTTPS endpoints directly if you'd like.
You can find information on this in the authorization documentation, as well as the new OAuth Guide.
Most apps currently default to long-lived access tokens, but if you want to start using short-lived access tokens, you should set the 'token_access_type' parameter on your /oauth2/authorize URL. You can find information on using that in the /oauth2/authorize documentation. Specifically, to get short-lived tokens with a refresh token, you should set it to "offline".
Greg-DB
5 years agoDropbox Staff
We recommend just using the official SDKs whenever possible, as they'll do most of the work for you, but you can certainly use the HTTPS endpoints directly if you'd like.
You can find information on this in the authorization documentation, as well as the new OAuth Guide.
Most apps currently default to long-lived access tokens, but if you want to start using short-lived access tokens, you should set the 'token_access_type' parameter on your /oauth2/authorize URL. You can find information on using that in the /oauth2/authorize documentation. Specifically, to get short-lived tokens with a refresh token, you should set it to "offline".
- Vicne5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Yes, that was it.
Adding "token_access_type=offline" to the authorize url at the beginning of the transaction resulted in both a short-lived access token with a lifetime of 1440s (4h) and a refresh_token that I'll be able to use once the access_token is outdated.
Thanks for the great support.
Vicne
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