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Jon B.1's avatar
Jon B.1
Collaborator | Level 9
4 years ago

Saving and restoring a short-term token

Hi -- still trying to un-mothball and update an old SwiftyDropbox-based app, and migrate it to short-life tokens.  The standard auth process is basically working now, but I'm wondering if I can prese...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    4 years ago

    If you use authorizeFromControllerV2, the SwiftyDropbox SDK will automatically store and use the refresh token for you. You should just use authorizedClient to get the client and the SDK will take care of the refresh process.

Jon B.1's avatar
Jon B.1
Collaborator | Level 9

Brilliant!  Nice to know I was overthinking things...

Jon B.1's avatar
Jon B.1
Collaborator | Level 9
4 years ago

Just to confirm, though:  I'm aware that authorizedClient maintains and refreshes the same tokens while the app is running.  But you're saying that if I quit and relaunch the app, authorizedClient persists the tokens and is still valid by default?  If so, I'm a very happy man...

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

    Yes, that's correct.

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