How to refresh or obtain a new token from Portal?

Anonymous User

What would be the correct process for detecting when and then obtaining a new token from Portal when the existing one expires?

One way would be to catch the error message and obtain a new token.

The Portal object in the API has a 'token' property, and an 'expires' property. I guess another method would be to check periodically whether the "expires" property is older than the current datetime.

But how to actually go about obtaining a new token? I expected there might be a method called 'refreshToken' or similar but not that I can find.

Cheers,

-Paul

NeilAyres

I think that there is only the "generateToken" call to the server.

You can also generate a token with a long expiry by specifying "expiration" : 1000 or something for a large number of seconds validity. Otherwise check the expires property against the system time as you suggest.