(VBScript) Refresh Access Token on 401 Unauthorized and Retry (Service Account)

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Demonstrates how to handle an expired access token error, refresh the token, and retry the request. (In this case, the request is to download an object from Google Cloud Storage.)

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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

' This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
' scope "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"

' In this example, Get Google Cloud Storage OAuth2 Access Token, 
' the service account access token was saved to a text file.  This example fetches the access token from the file..
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbToken = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorageAccessToken.txt","utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed to load access token.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Http")
set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

http.AuthToken = sbToken.GetAsString()

' Construct a URL to download an object named "starfish.jpg" from the "chilkat-ocean" bucket.
success = http.SetUrlVar("bucket_name","chilkat-ocean")
success = http.SetUrlVar("object_name","starfish.jpg")
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/{$bucket_name}/o/{$object_name}?alt=media"

' If there is an error response, then we didn't actually download the file data,
' but instead we downloaded an error response..
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData")
set fileData = CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = http.DownloadBd(url,fileData)
responseCode = http.LastStatus
If ((success = 0) And (responseCode <> 401)) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

If (responseCode = 401) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Received 401 Unauthorized response. Attempting to refresh the access token...")

    ' May be that the access token expired.
    ' Load our JSON key and request a new access token, then retry the original request.
    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.FileAccess")
    set fac = CreateObject("Chilkat.FileAccess")
    jsonKey = fac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/googleApi/ChilkatCloud-13a07a2e8b3f.json","utf-8")
    If (fac.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(fac.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.AuthGoogle")
    set gAuth = CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthGoogle")
    gAuth.JsonKey = jsonKey
    gAuth.Scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
    gAuth.ExpireNumSeconds = 3600
    gAuth.SubEmailAddress = ""

    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Socket")
    set tlsSock = CreateObject("Chilkat.Socket")
    success = tlsSock.Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,1,5000)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(tlsSock.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    success = gAuth.ObtainAccessToken(tlsSock)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(gAuth.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    success = fac.WriteEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorageAccessToken.txt",gAuth.AccessToken,"utf-8",0)

    ' Retry the original request.
    http.AuthToken = gAuth.AccessToken
    success = http.DownloadBd(url,fileData)
    If (success = 0) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

End If

If (responseCode <> 200) Then
    ' Get the error response
    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
    set sbErrorResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
    success = sbErrorResponse.AppendBd(fileData,"utf-8",0,0)
    outFile.WriteLine("Error response code = " & responseCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("Error:")
    outFile.WriteLine(sbErrorResponse.GetAsString())
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Success.")

' Save the downloaded data to a file.
success = fileData.WriteFile("qa_output/starfish.jpg")

outFile.Close