That is correct, the refresh token is long lived and last until the user revokes access.
Best, Alain On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Tasmania <[email protected]> wrote: > Alain, > > You are a life saver ... thanks! it worked just fine. > I'm assuming I can authenticate over and over with these credentials > without having to refresh them until the user revokes our permission, > right? > > Thanks again > > > Marcelo > > On Aug 26, 9:01 am, Alain Vongsouvanh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > If you already have the access and refresh tokens, you don't have to > request > > another one and can directly authorize your > > gdata.calendar.client.CalendarClient: > > token > > = > gdata.gauth.OAuth2Token(client_id=client_id,client_secret=client_secret', > > scope='https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds', > > > > user_agent='calendar-cmdline-sample/1.0', access_token='<ACCESS_TOKEN>', > > refresh_token='<REFRESH_TOKEN>') > > > > token.authorize(client) > > > > Best, > > Alain > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tasmania <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > > I'm migrating my Python application that reads a user's Google > > > calendar feed from oAuth 1 to oAuth 2. > > > > > * With oAuth 1: > > > My app would open a browser were user can authenticate with his GMail > > > account and authorize access, and my app would obtain a user_token, > > > user_secret for that user, then authenticate to the calendar feed: > > > > > client = gdata.calendar.client.CalendarClient(source='test') > > > client.auth_token = gdata.gauth.OAuthHmacToken(app_key, > > > app_secret,user_token,user_secret,gdata.gauth.ACCESS_TOKEN) > > > > > This token, secret pair would be long lived. > > > > > * With oAuth 2: > > > I registered my app in the Google API console and obtained the oAuth 2 > > > client_id and client_secret, and modified the app to request the > > > user's access_token, refresh_token from > > >https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token > > > For the GData lib, I applied the gauth.py patch specified here: > > >http://codereview.appspot.com/4440067/ > > > > > This access_token is short lived. > > > > > I played a little bit with the code posted here > > >http://codereview.appspot.com/4440067/ > > > and works ok. > > > > > My questions: > > > 1. I am obtaining access_token, refresh_token via a curl call from my > > > app, and I can successfully retrieve both. However, when I apply it to > > > this code: > > > > > token = > > > > gdata.gauth.OAuth2Token(client_id=client_id,client_secret=client_secret', > > > scope='https://www.google.com/calendar/ > > > feeds', > > > user_agent='calendar-cmdline-sample/ > > > 1.0') > > > uri = token.generate_authorize_url() > > > token.get_access_token(access_token) > > > > > It gives me: > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/gdata/gauth.py", line 1267, > > > in get_access_token > > > raise OAuth2AccessTokenError(error_msg) > > > gdata.gauth.OAuth2AccessTokenError > > > > > 2. Assuming I can successfully do #1, I can save the access/refresh > > > tokens in a DB. Using python gdata lib, how can I use refresh_token to > > > request another access_token (hence not having to ask the user every > > > time they use the app to authorize access to it) > > > > > Thanks much in advance! > > > > > M > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html > > > > -- > > Alain Vongsouvanh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html > -- Alain Vongsouvanh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html
