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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.
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
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Stafffistuk 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.
