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How to re-link a user in API 2 (Handling Revoked Access Etc)
In API 1, I could offer the user an option to re-link (re-authorise) Dropbox if they run into issues because their access token had expired or been revoked. I could do this as follows: First, I l...
That's right. There's a simple example here, but you may want to handle the more specific cases (e.g., invalid access token versus suspended user) in the DBAUTHAuthError.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffThat's right, reauthorizeClient isn't for this case. That's meant for when you want to retrieve an authorized client for a user account for which you already have an access token.
For the revoked access token case, you can just catch the authorization failure (the InvalidAccessToken DBAUTHAuthError from DBRequestAuthError) and then call authorizeFromController again to have the user re-link and get a new access token.
Great, thanks for the clarification. So, instead of an equivalent of DBSession's -sessionDidReceiveAuthorizationFailure: delegate method, I check for DBError's -isAuthFailure in the response of any of the Dropbox requests? That makes sense, thanks!
- Greg-DB
That's right. There's a simple example here, but you may want to handle the more specific cases (e.g., invalid access token versus suspended user) in the DBAUTHAuthError.
Great, thanks. Following your advice, I've got checking for revoked access and re-linking all working - much appreciated!
All the best,
Keith
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