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Mike G
Mike G

Reputation: 153

How long does the User Token/Client last with Box Platform API?

I'm developing a server-side application to upload files to Box. I'm using the Box .NET SDK, using JWT for authentication.

Here's how I set up my Box stuff:

var boxConfig = new BoxConfig(clientId, clientSecret, enterpriseId, jwtPrivateKey, jwtPrivateKeyPassword, jwtPublicKeyId);
var boxJwt = new BoxJWTAuth(boxConfig);

var userToken = boxJwt.UserToken(boxAppUserId);
var userClient = boxJwt.UserClient(userToken, boxAppUserId);

Then I use the UserClient object to upload a file to Box once a day.

My question is: Will that UserClient or UserToken ever expire? I want to know if I should get a new UserToken and instantiate a UserClient every time I need to use it, or if I could initialize all these things just once when my application starts up.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 315

Answers (1)

John Hoerr
John Hoerr

Reputation: 8035

The token will expire after roughly one hour. The client is designed to fetch a new user/admin token as necessary so you shouldn't need to worry about it after the client is initially created. You might even try specifying a blank token when initializing the client and let the re-authentication logic handle things from the beginning:

var userClient = boxJwt.UserClient("", boxAppUserId);

Upvotes: 3

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