React Native

Automatically Refresh Token for 401 Unauthorized

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Demonstrates how to automatically refresh an access token (without user interaction) when the token expires and a 401 Unauthorized response is received. React Native

import { Http, JsonObject, OAuth2, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const tokenFilePath = 'qa_data/tokens/googleCalendar.json';

  // Get our current access token.
  const jsonToken = new JsonObject();
  jsonToken.loadFile(tokenFilePath);
  if (!jsonToken.hasMember('access_token')) {
    console.log('No access token found.');
    return;
  }

  const http = new Http();
  http.authToken = jsonToken.stringOf('access_token');

  let jsonResponse = '';
  try {
    jsonResponse = await http.quickGetStrAsync('https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/users/me/calendarList');
  } catch {

    if (http.lastStatus !== 401) {
      console.log(http.lastErrorText);
      console.log('----');
      console.log(http.lastResponseBody);
      return;
    }

    // The access token must've expired. 
    // Refresh the access token and then retry the request.
    const oauth2 = new OAuth2();

    oauth2.tokenEndpoint = 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token';

    // Replace these with actual values.
    oauth2.clientId = 'GOOGLE-CLIENT-ID';
    oauth2.clientSecret = 'GOOGLE-CLIENT-SECRET';

    // Get the "refresh_token"
    oauth2.refreshToken = jsonToken.stringOf('refresh_token');

    // Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
    try {
      await oauth2.refreshAccessTokenAsync();
    } catch {
      console.log(oauth2.lastErrorText);
      return;
    }

    // The response contains a new access token, but we must keep
    // our existing refresh token for when we need to refresh again in the future.
    jsonToken.updateString('access_token', oauth2.accessToken);

    // Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
    const sbJson = new StringBuilder();
    jsonToken.emitCompact = false;
    jsonToken.emitSb(sbJson);
    sbJson.writeFile(tokenFilePath, 'utf-8', false);

    console.log('OAuth2 authorization granted!');
    console.log(`New Access Token = ${oauth2.accessToken}`);

    // re-try the original request.
    http.authToken = oauth2.accessToken;
    try {
      jsonResponse = await http.quickGetStrAsync('https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/users/me/calendarList');
    } catch {
      console.log(http.lastErrorText);
      return;
    }
  }

  console.log(jsonResponse);
  console.log('-----------------------------');
}