Store the accessToken expiration

[joscha]

Use case:

I want to use the accessToken to access a GMail account with it. Therefore I need to know the time when the accessToken expires, hence I need the lifetime (or more specifically now()+liefetime) that comes back with the accessToken to be stored, so I can just use the accessToken if it hasn't expired and only refresh it using the refreshToken if its expired before accessing GMail via IMAP.

Feature request: Store the timestamp of the accessToken expiration (now()+lifetime) within the user record, when updating the accessToken.

Related discussions: #495, #464, #522

[scottburch]

I'll answer your question from the other thread here. I am using the username/password for imap. I don't need an oauth token for that. I'm using node-imap. Here is the code for the connection.

            var account = Collection('emailAccount').findOne(accountId);
            return new ImapConnection({
                username: account.imapUsername,
                password: account.imapPassword,
                host: account.imapServer,
                port: account.imapSecure ? 993 : 443,
                secure: account.imapSecure
            });

Nothing fancy. I don't know how to access gmail using anything that would require oauth.

[joscha]

I see - I don't have the user's password - frankly I don't think any sane user would give out the password to the emails to be stored elsewhere :-) I just add the GMail scope when users sign up to my Meteor app and then use the OAuth data to access GMail.

[scottburch]

Cool. I'll have to look into how to do that. Thanks.

[joscha]

Sure - it works with node-imap and https://github.com/andris9/xoauth2. The additional scope you need to add is https://mail.google.com/. Vote for this feature request, you are going to need the lifetime of the accessToken as much as me soon :-)

[scottburch]

It's quicker to put in a pull request. Should not be difficult to add.

[avital]

I would happily review a pull request implementing this but I don't think the meteor core team is going to work on this for now.

[AVGP]

@avital Is that what you've been looking for?

[joscha]

@AVGP nice work!

[avital]

@AVGP's change has been merged in as 79405a4, with minor modifications at 1e09d4e. It'd be great to get this working for all of the OAuth providers -- #576