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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. Go

    success := false

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

    jsonToken := chilkat.NewJsonObject()
    success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json")
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println("Failed to load x.json")
        jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
        return
    }

    // 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"
    // }

    oauth2 := chilkat.NewOAuth2()

    oauth2.SetTokenEndpoint("https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token")

    // Replace this with your actual X.com OAuth2 Client ID and Client Secret
    oauth2.SetClientId("OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID")
    oauth2.SetClientSecret("OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET")

    // Get the "refresh_token"
    oauth2.SetRefreshToken(jsonToken.StringOf("refresh_token"))

    // Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
    success = oauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(oauth2.LastErrorText())
        jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
        oauth2.DisposeOAuth2()
        return
    }

    // Load the access token response into the json object 
    jsonToken.Load(oauth2.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 jsonToken.HasMember("expires_on") == false {
        dtExpire := chilkat.NewCkDateTime()
        dtExpire.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
        dtExpire.AddSeconds(*jsonToken.IntOf("expires_in"))
        jsonToken.AppendString("expires_on",*dtExpire.GetAsUnixTimeStr(false))
    }

    // 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.
    sbJson := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    jsonToken.SetEmitCompact(false)
    jsonToken.EmitSb(sbJson)
    sbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json","utf-8",false)

    fmt.Println("OAuth2 authorization granted!")
    fmt.Println("New Access Token = ", oauth2.AccessToken())

    jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
    oauth2.DisposeOAuth2()
    dtExpire.DisposeCkDateTime()
    sbJson.DisposeStringBuilder()