how to use the refreshAccessToken method to generate a new accesstoken in google-api-nodejs-client

Question

I see that this pull request adds a method to refresh the access token using a saved refresh token. It is not clear to me how to use it. I have saved the tokens (including t

Answer 1

Just a guess as I haven't used this library. But it looks to me like you simply call myOAuth2Client.refreshAccessToken(function(err, newCredentials){}), where you have already instantiated the OAuth2Client object with the old token. (dunno how you do that but it might be as simple as instantiating the object then myOauth2Client.credentials.refresh_token = 'foobar'.) And if there's no error, it'll modify the OAuth2Client.credentials object and additionally pass the credentials object to the callback.