topic Re: Write Configuration Data from Python SDK in Dev Space

Write Configuration Data from Python SDK

rendezz — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:04:07 GMT

I have written an HTML + Python Oauth tool for a platform. I Oauth in the HTML fine and it saves the auth token and refresh token which is made available to the Python. The issue is that once the access token expires, I refresh it. The refreshing brings with it a new refresh token which I have to use for subsequent refreshes. I need to replace the (now defunct) refresh token stored in the config with the new one. How do I write configuration data back to the tool config, or should I persist this elsewhere?

Thanks

Re: Write Configuration Data from Python SDK

TashaA — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:27:28 GMT

Hello @rendezz ,

Have you considered keeping all of the token logic on the UI side? I don't believe that we support writing from the engine to the UI at this time-I haven't seen it done.

-Tasha

Re: Write Configuration Data from Python SDK

rendezz — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:09:30 GMT

Thanks

Unfortunately, once you start using the tokens, the original ones become invalid, so if you use them in the engine, the UI ones need to now get re-authed, which invalidates the ones in the engine etc.

But I hear you about not being able to write config from the engine, that is what I have found as well. I am thinking of setting up an online service which both UI and engine can access to manage and persist tokens.

Thank you for your input.

Re: Write Configuration Data from Python SDK

DrewE — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:10:11 GMT

You can update the config XML of the tool from the backend by doing:

engine.output_message(
    tool_id,
    Sdk.Status.update_output_config_xml,
    updated_xml_string,
)

Re: Write Configuration Data from Python SDK

rendezz — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:28:02 GMT

Thank you, I will go ahead and try this.