Missing ability to refresh token

[paul]

I don't see a way to refresh the OAuth token once it has expired. The #connect_oauth function only accepts the original token, which appears to expire after a few hours. The standard OAuth handshake, and credentials provided by omniauth-heroku include a refresh_token attribute which may be used to automatically obtain a new token one it has expired. It would be nice if this gem accepted the refresh_token as a param (or if it already does, document it somehow. I don't see anything in the gem docs here or in heroic.), and could automatically do the refreshed token exchange.

[geemus]

@paul good point. Do you imagine then that it would catch the request error when it expired, get new token and retry? Would you be up for helping toward a PR? Thanks!

[thebadmonkeydev]

I'm very interested in this feature, has no one taken it up since last March?

[geemus]

@thebadmonkeydev unfortunately, no progress that I'm aware of.

[thebadmonkeydev]

The more I look at this the more I feel like it belongs in heroics and not specifically in platform-api. @geemus if you agree I'll open the issue there and start working on a solution.

[thebadmonkeydev]

The more I look at this the more I feel like it belongs in heroics and not specifically in platform-api. @geemus if you agree I'll open the issue there and start working on a solution.