Visual FoxPro

X.com OAuth 2.0 Refresh Access Token

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Demonstrates how to get an X.com OAuth2 access token from a desktop application or script. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loOauth2
LOCAL loDtExpire
LOCAL loSbJson

lnSuccess = 0

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

loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? "Failed to load x.json"
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* The access token JSON looks something like this:

* {
*   "token_type": "bearer",
*   "expires_in": 7200,
*   "access_token": "VmNDLVZiYUZwejY5Mkx3RblFTmo3ek1leTRGclMuZFVOUTVUTWpNbVZKb1N5OjE3NDAxNjk4MDVxNTE6MToxOaF0OjE",
*   "scope": "block.read follows.read offline.access tweet.write block.write like.write like.read users.read tweet.read follows.write",
*   "refresh_token": "eThOWVVFSTRqdVp3QTFndGsxM2ZGZmFyNWVrU0phM1JKbGdrbGNWRGJzb1loOjE3NDAwMjk4MDUxNTI6MTowOnJ0OjE"
* }

loOauth2 = CreateObject('Chilkat.OAuth2')

loOauth2.TokenEndpoint = "https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token"

* Replace this with your actual X.com OAuth2 Client ID and Client Secret
loOauth2.ClientId = "OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID"
loOauth2.ClientSecret = "OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET"

* Get the "refresh_token"
loOauth2.RefreshToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("refresh_token")

* Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
lnSuccess = loOauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loOauth2.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loOauth2
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Load the access token response into the json object 
loJsonToken.Load(loOauth2.AccessTokenResponse)

* If an "expires_on" member does not exist, then add the JSON member by
* getting the current system date/time and adding the "expires_in" seconds.
* This way we'll know when the token expires.
IF (loJsonToken.HasMember("expires_on") = 0) THEN
    loDtExpire = CreateObject('Chilkat.CkDateTime')
    loDtExpire.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
    loDtExpire.AddSeconds(loJsonToken.IntOf("expires_in"))
    loJsonToken.AppendString("expires_on",loDtExpire.GetAsUnixTimeStr(0))
ENDIF

* 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.
loSbJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loJsonToken.EmitCompact = 0
loJsonToken.EmitSb(loSbJson)
loSbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json","utf-8",0)

? "OAuth2 authorization granted!"
? "New Access Token = " + loOauth2.AccessToken

RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loOauth2
RELEASE loDtExpire
RELEASE loSbJson