Determining When to Refresh Access to Asana API

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When I do the initial authentication to the Asana API with OAuth, it gives me a refresh_token as well as an expires_in of 3600 ms (1 hour).

What is the typical way of determining whether my app will need to use the refresh_token to get a new access_token?

I can think of two options:

1. Watch for an authentication error and then request a new access_token.


2. Store the date/time from now until 1 hour from now. Then with each API request, check the date/time to see if that time has already passed, and if so, request a new access_token.

Is there a better way than one of these two options? I don't see a recommendation from Asana in their OAuth documentation.

Thanks!

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Clifton Labrum

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Determining When to Refresh Access to Asana API