Multiple short lived access tokens in same app

Mark R.5

Hi. Appreciate this may be a silly question, but here goes. Given that a refresh token can be used to generate short lived access tokens, is it possible to use more than one of these short lived tokens at the same time in the same app for the same user. 

 

So for example could you be using one short lived access token for a background process (e.g. using longpoll), then generate another short lived token to read some files from a folder, while the background process continues. Or would the generation of the new short lived token invalidate the token being used for the background process.

 

I ask because currently I maintain multiple instances of the DropboxClient in my Android client, so I may need to switch to a singleton if the above is a problem.

Greg-DB

You can create and use multiple short-lived access tokens for the same app-user pair at the same time. Creating a new one doesn't invalidate previous ones.