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Migrating existing long term tokens to new short term tokens with Java SDK + Android
I have an existing app in production that authorizes with Dropbox using
Auth.startOAuth2Authentication
From my understanding this gives me a long term token, but after Septembe...
On September 30th, we will stop issuing new long lived tokens. Existing long lived tokens will not be invalidated; this will not break for existing users. You can re-auth existing users to get them on to refresh tokens.
kylea
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffOn September 30th, we will stop issuing new long lived tokens. Existing long lived tokens will not be invalidated; this will not break for existing users. You can re-auth existing users to get them on to refresh tokens.
Hello, thanks for the answer. I'm still not sure whether we should just proceed using the long-lived tokens for the legacy users, or is there a way to exchange the long-lived token to a short-lived token with a refresh token?
- Greg-DB
fistuk While the creation of new long-lived access tokens is now deprecated, we don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, your users can continue using existing long-lived access token(s) without interruption. Dropbox does not offer a way to exchange long-lived access tokens for short-lived access tokens with refresh tokens without having the user re-authorize the app, and you are not required to migrate users with existing long-lived access tokens to short-lived access tokens.
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