Tcl

Get eBay Application Token

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This example shows how to request an eBay Application token. Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

# See the Ebay documentation about Access token types
# Also see the Ebay documentation about client credentials grant flow

set http [new_CkHttp]

# If using the sandbox, the target endpoint will be:
# POST https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token

# If using the production (live) system, the target endpoint will be:
# POST https://api.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token

# The eBay client_id and client_secret needs to be sent
# in a Basic Authorization  request header, which has this format:
# Authorization: Basic <B64_encoded_oauth_credentials>

# Chilkat takes care of it.  You only need to set the Login = client_id,
# and password = client_secret, and indicate you want "Basic" HTTP Authorization.
CkHttp_put_Login $http "EBAY_CLIENT_ID"
CkHttp_put_Password $http "EBAY_CLIENT_SECRET"
CkHttp_put_BasicAuth $http 1

# Let's do the following POST:

#   HTTP method:   POST
#   URL (Sandbox): https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token
# 
#   HTTP headers:
#     Content-Type = application/x-www-form-urlencoded
#     Authorization = Basic <B64-encoded-oauth-credentials>
# 
#   Request body (wrapped for readability):
#     grant_type=client_credentials&
#     redirect_uri=<RuName-value>&
#     scope=<SPACE separated list of scopes>
# 

# Create an HttpRequest object to hold the request params.
set req [new_CkHttpRequest]

CkHttpRequest_put_HttpVerb $req "POST"
CkHttpRequest_AddParam $req "grant_type" "client_credentials"

# The scope query param indicates the access to be provided by the token.
# Multiple scopes can be specified by separating each with a SPACE char.
# See the Ebay OAuth scopes documentation

CkHttpRequest_AddParam $req "scope" "https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope"

set endPoint "https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token"
CkHttpRequest_put_ContentType $req "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

set resp [new_CkHttpResponse]

set success [CkHttp_HttpReq $http $endPoint $req $resp]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkHttpRequest $req
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    exit
}

# The response is JSON..
set json [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_Load $json [CkHttpResponse_bodyStr $resp]
CkJsonObject_put_EmitCompact $json 0

# If the response status code is not 200, then it failed.
puts "Response status code = [CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp]"
if {[CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp] != 200} then {
    puts [CkJsonObject_emit $json]
    puts "Failed."
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkHttpRequest $req
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    delete_CkJsonObject $json
    exit
}

# We successfully retrieved an eBay access token.
# The actual access token string can be parsed from the JSON like this:
set accessToken [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "access_token"]

# This application token is only valid for 7200 seconds (2 hours).  We'll want to refresh
# it before it expires.  (There is an online example for that..)
# For now, let's save the JSON to a file for our application to use.

# But before doing that, let's add to the JSON an expiration timestamp
# so we know when to refresh the token.
set dtExpire [new_CkDateTime]

CkDateTime_SetFromCurrentSystemTime $dtExpire
CkDateTime_AddSeconds $dtExpire [CkJsonObject_IntOf $json "expires_in"]
CkJsonObject_AppendString $json "expire_time" [CkDateTime_getAsTimestamp $dtExpire 0]

# Persist the JSON to a file.
set fac [new_CkFileAccess]

set success [CkFileAccess_WriteEntireTextFile $fac "qa_data/tokens/ebay.json" [CkJsonObject_emit $json] "utf-8" 0]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkFileAccess_lastErrorText $fac]
    puts "Failed to save eBay Application token to file."
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkHttpRequest $req
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    delete_CkJsonObject $json
    delete_CkDateTime $dtExpire
    delete_CkFileAccess $fac
    exit
}

puts [CkJsonObject_emit $json]
puts "Success."

# The output of this example is:

# 	{ 
# 	  "access_token": "v^1.1#i^1#p^1#I^3#r^0# ... Ajp1BQhJDgAA",
# 	  "token_type": "Application Access Token",
# 	  "expires_in": 7200,
# 	  "refresh_token": "N/A",
# 	  "expire_time": "2017-04-16T14:44:20Z"
# 	}
# 
# 	Success.
# 

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkHttpRequest $req
delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
delete_CkJsonObject $json
delete_CkDateTime $dtExpire
delete_CkFileAccess $fac