topic Re: tGoogleConnection and the refresh token in Talend Studio

tGoogleConnection and the refresh token

mobmsc2 — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:11:34 GMT

Using the following documentation I have been able to connect to a google drive account. I understand the token is set to expire after 3600 seconds and according to the google developers oauth 2.0 playground. "The OAuth Playground does not store refresh tokens"

Can someone explain the purpose of the refresh token and whether it can be used as the "access token" for the tGoogleConnection component as a way to overcome the expiration of the access token?

Re: tGoogleConnection and the refresh token

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:17:44 GMT

I wrote a tutorial about this a while ago (https://www.rilhia.com/tutorials/using-oauth-20-talend-access-google-apis). Take a look. It may help you out with a process to use the Refresh Token.

Re: tGoogleConnection and the refresh token

mobmsc2 — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:31:00 GMT

So the refresh token is a way to authorise requests for new authentication tokens to the selected google api not itself an authentication token for that api?

Re: tGoogleConnection and the refresh token

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:36:47 GMT

Essentially, yes. It is useful to you since once you have carried out the first authentication you do not need to go through the process that requires a human again. However you must keep the Refresh Token and your other credentials secret.

Re: tGoogleConnection and the refresh token

AJ_Sheikh — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:28:24 GMT

Hi @rhall,

I have same issue, I need to refresh my GCP token, your link it seems broken, can you please provide us.

Thanks