Google API Client "refresh token must be passed in or set as part of setAccessToken"

Question

I am currently facing a very strange problem, indeed I've been following this very same guide (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/php) from Google API documentation. I tried it twice, at the first time it work like a charm but after the access token had expire the script provided straight by Google API Doc was unable to refresh it.

TL;DR

Here is the error message:

sam@ssh:~$ php www/path/to/app/public/quickstart.php


Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'LogicException' with message 'refresh token must be passed in or set as part of setAccessToken' in /home/pueblo/www/path/to/app/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Client.php:258
Stack trace:
#0 /home/pueblo/www/path/to/app/public/quickstart.php(55): Google_Client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken(NULL)
#1 /home/pueblo/www/path/to/app/public/quickstart.php(76): getClient()
#2 {main}
  thrown in /home/pueblo/www/path/to/app/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Client.php on line 258

Here is the part of the php script from google I've modified:

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

// I don't want the creds to be in my home folder, I prefer them in the app's root
define('APPLICATION_NAME', 'LRS API Calendar');
define('CREDENTIALS_PATH', __DIR__ . '/../.credentials/calendar-php-quickstart.json');
define('CLIENT_SECRET_PATH', __DIR__ . '/../client_secret.json');

I also modified the expandHomeDirectory so I could "disable" it without modifying too much code:

function expandHomeDirectory($path) {
  $homeDirectory = getenv('HOME');
  if (empty($homeDirectory)) {
    $homeDirectory = getenv('HOMEDRIVE') . getenv('HOMEPATH');
  }
  return $path;
  // return str_replace('~', realpath($homeDirectory), $path);
}

So to check if I was wrong or if Google was, I did an experiment: yesterday night I launch the quickstart script from ssh to check if it was working, and indeed it was, so I decided to check this morning if it still working just as it was before I slept and it wasn't so I think there's something wrong with Google's quickstart.php.

I hope someone could help me, I already checked all the other posts about the subject but they are all outdated.

Answer 1

I got the same problem recently and i solved it with this.

<?php
 $client->setRedirectUri($this->_redirectURI);
 $client->setAccessType('offline');
 $client->setApprovalPrompt('force');

I explain ..... Refresh token is not returned because we didnt force the approvalPrompt. The offline mode is not enought. We must force the approvalPrompt. Also the redirectURI must be set before these two options. It worked for me.

This is my full function

<?php
     private function getClient()
     {
        $client = new Google_Client();
        $client->setApplicationName($this->projectName);
        $client->setScopes(SCOPES);
        $client->setAuthConfig($this->jsonKeyFilePath);
        $client->setRedirectUri($this->redirectUri);
        $client->setAccessType('offline');
        $client->setApprovalPrompt('force');

       // Load previously authorized credentials from a file.
       if (file_exists($this->tokenFile)) {
         $accessToken = json_decode(file_get_contents($this->tokenFile), 
         true);
      } else {
        // Request authorization from the user.
        $authUrl = $client->createAuthUrl();
        header('Location: ' . filter_var($authUrl, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL));

        if (isset($_GET['code'])) {
            $authCode = $_GET['code'];
            // Exchange authorization code for an access token.
            $accessToken = $client->fetchAccessTokenWithAuthCode($authCode);
            header('Location: ' . filter_var($this->redirectUri, 
            FILTER_SANITIZE_URL));
            if(!file_exists(dirname($this->tokenFile))) {
                mkdir(dirname($this->tokenFile), 0700, true);
            }

            file_put_contents($this->tokenFile, json_encode($accessToken));
        }else{
            exit('No code found');
        }
    }
    $client->setAccessToken($accessToken);

    // Refresh the token if it's expired.
    if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {

        // save refresh token to some variable
        $refreshTokenSaved = $client->getRefreshToken();

        // update access token
        $client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken($refreshTokenSaved);

        // pass access token to some variable
        $accessTokenUpdated = $client->getAccessToken();

        // append refresh token
        $accessTokenUpdated['refresh_token'] = $refreshTokenSaved;

        //Set the new acces token
        $accessToken = $refreshTokenSaved;
        $client->setAccessToken($accessToken);

        // save to file
        file_put_contents($this->tokenFile, 
       json_encode($accessTokenUpdated));
    }
    return $client;
}