How to validate that the token is not expired

[joseluistorres]

Hi there,

Is there any way to check that the current token of a customer is expired or not, other than doing something like:

@service.reconnect

I'm trying to find a workaround for this https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0010_getting_started/0020_connect/0010_from_within_your_app/implement_oauth_in_your_app/token_renewal_and_expiration

Thanks!

[ruckus]

It appears that Intuit doesn't provide a way to check if a token is active or not (based on their docs, the page you linked too, there isn't a "Status Check" endpoint).

I guess if you were to make a request with an invalid token you'd get a authorization fault.

Its not as clean as having a distinct endpoint, I know.

On Feb 26, 2014, at 11:02 AM, JoseLuis Torres [email protected] wrote:

Hi there,

Is there any way to check that the current token of a customer is expired or not, other than doing something like:

@service.reconnect
I'm trying to find a workaround for this https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0010_getting_started/0020_connect/0010_from_within_your_app/implement_oauth_in_your_app/token_renewal_and_expiration

Thanks!

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[joseluistorres]

That's right, exactly, I got an exception when trying to do any request with an expired token. I was thinking in implementing a fix to track the "connect" date and check it together with .reconnect to avoid the expired token, I don't know if it's a fix for quickeebooks or for our implementation though 😊

[ruckus]

Not because I am lazy, but I would say its not really part of quickeebooks.

What I do is this:

1. When a new token is created in my system I store the expiration date along with the "reminder" date (30 days prior to expiration).
2. I have a monthly scheduled task that runs and checks for any tokens with a reminder date of now - if found, automatically renew them.
3. If renewal was successful, update all the attributes, update the new expiration & reminder dates and off we go again.

On Feb 26, 2014, at 11:14 AM, JoseLuis Torres [email protected] wrote:

That's right, exactly, I got an exception when trying to do any request with an expired token. I was thinking in implementing a fix to track the "connect" date and check it together with .reconnect to avoid the expired token, I don't know if it's a fix for quickeebooks or for our implementation though

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[joseluistorres]

Nice, yes, I was wondering, ok thanks for your feedback @ruckus 👍

[yul]

@ruckus: can you share a code for renewing token?

[ruckus]

Sure, I have this method in my class which stores the tokens:

  def renew_intuit_token!
    service =
      case flavor
      when "QBD"
        Quickeebooks::Windows::Service::AccessToken.new
      when "QBO"
        Quickeebooks::Online::Service::AccessToken.new
      end
    service.access_token = consumer
    service.realm_id = realm_id
    response = service.reconnect
    if response.error_code.to_i == 0
      # ErrorCode=0 is successful
      self.access_token = response.token
      self.access_secret = response.secret
      self.token_expires_at = 6.months.from_now
      self.reconnect_token_at = 5.months.from_now
      save
    else
      Rails.logger.info("Intuit Response: #{response.to_xml}")
      raise "Failed to renew OAuth Token: #{response.error_message}"
    end
  end

[yul]

Thanks a lot, it took some time for me to find out how to fill service.access_token,but this seem to work:

consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, {
      :site => "https://oauth.intuit.com",
      :request_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_request_token",
      :authorize_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token",
      :access_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token"
})
service.access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.new(consumer, access_token, access_secret)

Its the kind of things that most tutorials and readme's tend to ignore...

[ruckus]

Yes for sure. This is covered in the README at:

https://github.com/ruckus/quickbooks-ruby#getting-started--initiating-authentication-flow-with-intuit

and

https://github.com/ruckus/quickbooks-ruby#creating-an-oauth-access-token

On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Yuri Lopukhov [email protected] wrote:

Thanks a lot, it took some time for me to find out how to fill service.access_token,but this seem to work:

consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, {
:site => "https://oauth.intuit.com",
:request_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_request_token",
:authorize_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token",
:access_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token"
})
service.access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.new(consumer, access_token, access_secret)
Its the kind of things that most tutorials and readme's tend to ignore...

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[ruckus]

Hah, I just realized I sent links for my other QB library and not for quickeebooks. But looking in the Quickeebooks README I have the same lines essentially.

On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Cody Caughlan [email protected] wrote:

Yes for sure. This is covered in the README at:

https://github.com/ruckus/quickbooks-ruby#getting-started--initiating-authentication-flow-with-intuit

and

https://github.com/ruckus/quickbooks-ruby#creating-an-oauth-access-token

On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Yuri Lopukhov [email protected] wrote:

Thanks a lot, it took some time for me to find out how to fill service.access_token,but this seem to work:

consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, {
:site => "https://oauth.intuit.com",
:request_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_request_token",
:authorize_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token",
:access_token_path => "/oauth/v1/get_access_token"
})
service.access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.new(consumer, access_token, access_secret)
Its the kind of things that most tutorials and readme's tend to ignore...

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