Introducing Automatic Auth-Token Retrieval in Java and TypeScript

We are introducing automatic token retrieval and refreshing in the OAuth 2.0 grant types.

Details

SDKs now have automated auth-token retrieval or refreshing feature prior to any API call necessitating OAuth 2.0 Grant Type.

What's New?

Earlier, it was user's responsibility to fetch/refresh the auth-token and update the SDK client with newly fetched auth-token.

Now, after configuring OAuth 2.0 grant type credentials in the SDK client, the SDK handles this automatically before making any API call that requires an auth-token.

note

This feature is currently limited to only Java and TS SDKs using OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant type.

The SDK automatically retrieves or refreshes the auth-token from the auth server if it's expired or undefined by default.

For those wanting a custom auth-token provider, you can register a hook to supply the auth-token from a unique source. Additionally, you can register for the auth-token update event, which triggers whenever the auth-token is updated.

Here's how to set up callbacks in the client for the auth-token provider and auth-token update event.

Java

SDKClient client = new SDKClient.Builder()
    .clientCredentialsAuth(new ClientCredentialsAuthModel.Builder(
            "OAuthClientId",
            "OAuthClientSecret"
        )
        .oAuthTokenProvider((lastOAuthToken, credentialsManager) -> {
            // Add the callback handler to provide a new OAuth token
            // It will be triggered whenever the lastOAuthToken is null or expired
            OAuthToken token = loadTokenFromDatabase();
            if (token == null) {
                return credentialsManager.fetchToken();
            }
            return token;
        })
        .oAuthOnTokenUpdate(oAuthToken -> {
            // Add the callback handler to perform operations like save to DB or file etc.
            // It will be triggered whenever the token gets updated
            saveTokenToDatabase(oAuthToken);
        })
        .build())
    .build();

TypeScript

const client = new SDKClient({
  clientCredentialsAuthCredentials: {
    oAuthClientId: 'OAuthClientId',
    oAuthClientSecret: 'OAuthClientSecret',
    oAuthTokenProvider: (lastOAuthToken: OAuthToken | undefined, authManager: ClientCredentialsAuthManager) => {
      // Add the callback handler to provide a new OAuth token
      // It will be triggered whenever the lastOAuthToken is undefined or expired
      var token = loadTokenFromDatabase();
      if (token === undefined) {
        return authManager.fetchToken();
      }
      return token;
    },
    oAuthOnTokenUpdate: (token: OAuthToken) => {
      // Add the callback handler to perform operations like save to DB or file etc.
      // It will be triggered whenever the token gets updated
      saveTokenToDatabase(token);
    }
  },
});