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ruby-on-railsrubyruby-on-rails-4google-apigoogle-drive-api
Sidner
Sidner

Reputation: 383

Stopped getting refresh token from google's API

So I have a web app with ruby on rails that connects to google drive's API. Up until now, it used to receive the refresh token, since one of the paramenters I was using was offline. But recently it stopped getting it. The url that is being sent is this:

Redirected to https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=ID&options=%7B:access_type=%3E%22offline%22,%20:approval_prompt=%3E%22force%22%7D&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/oauth2callbackdrive&response_type=code&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email

The code that is redirecting to the URI has this:

client = Google::APIClient.new
client.authorization.client_id = GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
client.authorization.client_secret = GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
client.authorization.scope = SCOPES
client.authorization.redirect_uri = GOOGLE_CLIENT_REDIRECT_URI
auth_url = client.authorization.authorization_uri(:options => {:access_type => :offline, :approval_prompt => :force}.to_s)
redirect_to auth_url.to_s

On the callback function I have this:

client = Google::APIClient.new
client.authorization.client_id = GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
client.authorization.client_secret = GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
client.authorization.scope = SCOPES
client.authorization.redirect_uri = GOOGLE_CLIENT_REDIRECT_URI
client.authorization.code = params['code']          
client.authorization.fetch_access_token!

And on the same function I insert into the database:

CloudAccount.create(username: username,access_token:client.authorization.access_token, refresh_token:client.authorization.refresh_token,register_id:userID,cloud_name:'drive')

Problem is, the client.authorization.refresh_token, which had a value before, now is returning empty and so it's being inserted into the DB as NULL. Which affects uploads/refresh/downloads when the access_token expires.

What can I do or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 385

Answers (1)

Kevin Li
Kevin Li

Reputation: 113

I was having a similar issue (Getting a refresh token from google api). I think if you use: prompt='select_account consent'

then that forces a new approval screen and you get a new refresh_token.

Reference: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2UserAgent

Upvotes: 2

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