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Google People API Refresh Access Token

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Demonstrates how to refresh a Google Access Token for the Google People API.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
# This example loads the JSON access token file 
# saved by this example: Get Google People API OAuth2 Access Token

jsonToken = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googlePeople.json")
if (success != true)
    print "Failed to load googlePeople.json" + "\n";
    exit
end

# The access token JSON looks like this:

# {
#   "access_token": "ya29.a0AfH6S ... LAZYFUkf0",
#   "expires_in": 3599,
#   "refresh_token": "1//0fL_Ov ... ee0",
#   "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts",
#   "token_type": "Bearer"
# }

oauth2 = Chilkat::CkOAuth2.new()

oauth2.put_TokenEndpoint("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token")

# Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.put_ClientId("GOOGLE-CLIENT-ID")
oauth2.put_ClientSecret("GOOGLE-CLIENT-SECRET")

# Get the "refresh_token"
oauth2.put_RefreshToken(jsonToken.stringOf("refresh_token"))

# Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
success = oauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
if (success != true)
    print oauth2.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# 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.
sbJson = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
jsonToken.put_EmitCompact(false)
jsonToken.EmitSb(sbJson)
sbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/googlePeople.json","utf-8",false)

print "OAuth2 authorization granted!" + "\n";
print "New Access Token = " + oauth2.accessToken() + "\n";