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Okta: Refresh Access Token with the Auth Code Flow

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Demonstrates how to refresh a token that was obtained using the authorization code flow.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

-- See Get Okta Access Token using Authorization Code Flow with PKCE
-- for sample code showing how to obtain an Okta access token using the authorization code flow for native apps (with PKCE).

local jsonToken = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
local success = jsonToken:load_file("qa_data/tokens/okta.json")
if not success then
    print("Failed to load myob.json")
    return
end

local oauth2 = chilkat.OAuth2.new()

oauth2.token_endpoint = "https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/token"

-- Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.client_id = "OKTA_CLIENT_ID"
oauth2.client_secret = "OKTA_CLIENT_SECRET"

-- Get the "refresh_token"
oauth2.refresh_token = jsonToken:string_of("refresh_token")

-- Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
oauth2.verbose_logging = true
success = oauth2:refresh_access_token()
if not success then
    print(oauth2.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Load the access token response into the json object
jsonToken:load(oauth2.access_token_response)

-- Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
-- The access + refresh tokens contained in this JSON will be needed for the next refresh.
local sbJson = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
jsonToken.emit_compact = false
jsonToken:emit_sb(sbJson)
sbJson:write_file("qa_data/tokens/okta.json", "utf-8", false)

print("OAuth2 authorization granted!")
print("New Access Token = " .. oauth2.access_token)