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anagai's avatar
anagai
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Not automatically refreshing authorization access token

I have a test that retrieves authorization access token and I set it to automatically refresh after 1 second. Meaning I want it to to get access token for every time it is run. It is not refreshing t...
  • anagai's avatar
    anagai
    5 years ago

    To clarify, would be great if this auto token refresh feature worked when using the 'Client Credentials Grant' method of getting the token.

     

    I can make an step that gets access token from our authorization server and put into a testsuite custom property. All the request steps will then use this token for their Authorization headers. This is alot simpler.

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anagai
Occasional Contributor

Ok, then this auto refresh feature is not going to work in this use case. I do not need to go to a page and refresh a token with javascript.

 

Lets say I have 50 rest api requests in a test suite and each requires an access token. Before I run the suite I have to go into each step and click on that get token button to get a new token. This is highly inefficient If I have 50 steps in a suite. Would be awesome if there was an auto refresh feature that upon soup ui start will know tokens are expired and automatically retrieve tokens per api request step. After that point keep track if tokens need to be refreshed after set period of time.

anagai's avatar
anagai
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

To clarify, would be great if this auto token refresh feature worked when using the 'Client Credentials Grant' method of getting the token.

 

I can make an step that gets access token from our authorization server and put into a testsuite custom property. All the request steps will then use this token for their Authorization headers. This is alot simpler.

  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    5 years ago
    Hey anagai

    I have various different OAuth v2.0 projects in my workspace and some use the embedded OAuth functionality, others ive had to.setup the various back and forth REST requests and others are single REST call to generate the access token which i save to a Project property which is then called for each request as you describe. It just depends on the technical architecture. Obviously the single REST call to generate the access token is the most straighforward.

    You could submit a new feature request to Smartbear to add the auto refresh functionality to the embedded functionality. Im sure there would be no shortage of upvotes!

    Cheers

    Rich
    • jkrolczy's avatar
      jkrolczy
      Regular Contributor
      5 years ago

      I just wanted to share an approach I use for Token ID.

       

      I have a script that all it does it retrieve a token ID.  

      I have this setup (for me in team City) to run every 2 hours and in a automation DB

      these Token IDs for various users are stored.  So I always have valid non expired token ID available

      for scripts to use.

       

      When running my Projects in SoapUI, the first test script, per my test env and user

      retrieves the token ID from the DB, stores it in a Project Custom variable.  

       

      As each of the my scripts execute in my TestSuite, they retrieve this TokenID from the project level

      and I build it into my header as a Bearer value.

       

      • richie's avatar
        richie
        Community Hero
        5 years ago
        Hey jkrolczy,

        In regards to the automatic refresh every 2 hours....how do you achieve this? Have you got this functionality coded in a groovy step perhaps?

        If this is the case, would you post the code?
        Im intrigued. I dont know how youd code this to automatically refresh without executing a step or am i misunderstanding?

        I dont know how to get an auto refresh at a specific interval so would welcome the education!

        Cheers

        Rich