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Refresh Cloud Storage OAuth2 Access Token (Authorization Code Flow)

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Demonstrates how to refresh an expired or soon-to-expire Cloud Storage OAuth2 access token obtained by the Authorization Code Flow (i.e. NOT for a Service Account).

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

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

jsonToken = chilkat.CkJsonObject()
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorage.json")
if (success != True):
    print("Failed to load googleCloudStorage.json")
    sys.exit()

# The access token JSON looks like this:

# 	{ 
# 	 "access_token": "ya29.a0Ad52N3_4eOd5_T7....",
# 	 "token_type": "Bearer",
# 	 "expires_in": 3600,
# 	 "refresh_token": "1/lEe5abcdNJ77eOSDBabcdkQGVmDalkwabcdR2Hatbo"
# 	}
# 

oauth2 = chilkat.CkOAuth2()

oauth2.put_TokenEndpoint("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token")

# Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.put_ClientId("GOOGLE-CLIENT-ID")
oauth2.put_ClientSecret("GOOGLE-CLIENT-SECRET")

# Get the "refresh_token"
oauth2.put_RefreshToken(jsonToken.stringOf("refresh_token"))

# Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
success = oauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
if (success != True):
    print(oauth2.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

# The response contains a new access token, but we must keep
# our existing refresh token for when we need to refresh again in the future.
jsonToken.UpdateString("access_token",oauth2.accessToken())

# Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
sbJson = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
jsonToken.put_EmitCompact(False)
jsonToken.EmitSb(sbJson)
sbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorage.json","utf-8",False)

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