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Refresh GMail IMAP OAuth2 Access Token

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Demonstrates how to refresh an access token GMail IMAP read/write access.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

// See Get GMail IMAP OAuth2 Access Token for Desktop App 
// for sample code showing how to obtain a GMail IMAP read/write access token.

// It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token for GMail.

Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/_gmailFullAccess.json")
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog("Failed to load _gmailFullAccess.json")
    Return
End If

// The access token JSON looks something like this:

// 	{ 
// 	 "access_token": "abac.Ci-ZabcdF37-NUrmSzxbHxTsMbtlN-uPfabcdAQN_2ekzj0s5ofCzRabcdTDMGaa2Q",
// 	 "token_type": "Bearer",
// 	 "expires_in": 3600,
// 	 "refresh_token": "1/lEe5abcdNJ77eOSDBabcdkQGVmDalkwabcdR2Hatbo"
// 	}
// 

Dim oauth2 As New Chilkat.OAuth2

oauth2.TokenEndpoint = "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token"

// Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.ClientId = "GOOGLE-CLIENT-ID"
oauth2.ClientSecret = "GOOGLE-CLIENT-SECRET"

// Get the "refresh_token"
oauth2.RefreshToken = jsonToken.StringOf("refresh_token")

// Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
success = oauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(oauth2.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("New access token: " + oauth2.AccessToken)

// 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.
success = jsonToken.UpdateString("access_token",oauth2.AccessToken)

// Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
Dim sbJson As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
jsonToken.EmitCompact = False
success = jsonToken.EmitSb(sbJson)
success = sbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/_gmailFullAccess.json","utf-8",False)

System.DebugLog("Access token refreshed!")
System.DebugLog("New Access Token = " + oauth2.AccessToken)