Refresh token grant
- Last Updated: December 22, 2020
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The refresh token grant is used to replace expired access tokens with active ones by exchanging the refresh token at a token URI endpoint. The following credentials are required to connect using the refresh token grant.
Important: Once you obtain
the credential information for your data source, you must store this information as a secret
in AWS Secrets Manager. The secret allows you to connect using an OAuth 2.0 grant. When
creating a connection, you must specify the name of the secret you created to store your
data source credential information. See Storing your credentials in AWS Secrets Manager.
- Service URL: the URL of the SharePoint site (or "site collection") to which you are connecting. For example, https://mycorp.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing/global.
- Client ID: client ID key for your application.
- Client Secret: client secret for your application.
- Token URI: token URI or endpoint from which the driver fetches access tokens.
- Refresh token: refresh token used to request a
new access token or renew an expired one.Note: You can use a third-party application such as Postman to obtain a refresh token. See Obtaining refresh token using Postman for details.