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Brad Henderson's avatar
Brad Henderson
Explorer | Level 4
4 months ago

How to get an Access Token from a Refresh token from within B4A

Hello All,

 

I have created a refresh token using the method thanks to "Здравко".  Manually using a web browser and Windows Command prompt.  The command prompt is: 

curl https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token -d grant_type=refresh_token -d refresh_token=<Refresh Token> -u <App key>:<App secret>

 

However, I want to be able to execute this from within my app, which is written in B4A.   My app is an in-house app for private use only.  From my limited knowledge of http, there is an option with "httpjob.PostString"  (B4A)  that requires parameters  link as String and text as String.  Assuming this method will work can anyone advise what the link and text parameters would need to be?

 

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

Brad

  • Hi Brad Henderson,

    To be honest I'm not familiar with the environment you're using. On the first look though, it uses OkHttp as underlying library. So you can take a look here for a simplistic example - example how OkHttp works. It may be easier for you to encode everything in the body (i.e. pass in the body text: "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=<REFRESH_TOKEN>&client_id=<APP_KEY>&client_secret=<APP_SECRET>"; replace all "<...>" tags appropriately). Find what matches to desired OkHttp calls exactly in your environment (something, I believe you may do). 😉

    Hope this helps.

     

    PS: Just to avoid confusion: The example supposes JSON content, but in your case the content type is different, so instead of "application/json" (as is in the example) you have to set "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as content type (MediaType in the example).

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20

    Hi Brad Henderson,

    To be honest I'm not familiar with the environment you're using. On the first look though, it uses OkHttp as underlying library. So you can take a look here for a simplistic example - example how OkHttp works. It may be easier for you to encode everything in the body (i.e. pass in the body text: "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=<REFRESH_TOKEN>&client_id=<APP_KEY>&client_secret=<APP_SECRET>"; replace all "<...>" tags appropriately). Find what matches to desired OkHttp calls exactly in your environment (something, I believe you may do). 😉

    Hope this helps.

     

    PS: Just to avoid confusion: The example supposes JSON content, but in your case the content type is different, so instead of "application/json" (as is in the example) you have to set "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as content type (MediaType in the example).

    • Brad Henderson's avatar
      Brad Henderson
      Explorer | Level 4

      Thank you ,  

      I will look into this.  This is new so will need to research more.

       

      Thanks again

    • Brad Henderson's avatar
      Brad Henderson
      Explorer | Level 4

      Greg,

      I had a look at the documentation and it appears the command I need is this one:

      curl https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token \
          -d grant_type=refresh_token \
          -d refresh_token=<REFRESH_TOKEN> \
          -d client_id=<APP_KEY> \
          -d client_secret=<APP_SECRET>

       

      I have tried to apply this in my B4A code as follows:

      Dim data As Map
      	data.Initialize
      	data.Put("grant_type", "refresh_token")
      	data.Put("refresh_token", "REFRESH_TOKEN")
      	data.Put("client_id", "APP_KEY")
      	data.Put("client_secret", "APP_SECRET")
      	
      	Dim j As HttpJob
      	j.Initialize("", Me)
      	j.PostString("https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token",data.As(JSON).ToString)
      	j.GetRequest.SetContentType("application/json")
      	Wait For (j) JobDone(j As HttpJob)
      	If j.Success Then
      		Log(j.GetString)
      	Else
      		Log(j.ErrorMessage)
      	End If
      	
      	j.Release

       

       

       

      But I get this error:

      ResponseError. Reason: , Response: {"error": "invalid_request", "error_description": "The request parameters do not match any of the supported authorization flows. Please refer to the API documentation for the correct parameters."}

       

      While I realize you may not be familiar with this language, is there anything glaringly wrong from what you see?

       

      Thanks Brad

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20

        Hi Brad Henderson,

        I see, you have selected that url command as base for what you're going to do. I believe, you have the command tested and it works fine. Right?

        Something I cannot understand though, where did you decide from that JSON is sended? 🤔 There is a way to check this. Add one more option to the curl command - '-v' option (from verbose). You will see a lot of things in your terminal - all that curl sends as request and receives back as response. This includes header blocks of both request and response. In both header blocks are corresponding Content-Type headers. Check what curl sends as request content type and tell us is it json or something else.

         

        PS: Bear in mind that when you scroll your terminal back, the response (the later one) will be visible before the request (something that's first in time).

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