Google Authentication: Offline Access Type (allow retrieving refresh tokens)

[Elashi]

In Google authentication, I noticed that you do not provide "offline access type" functionality. Also, I noticed that at some point, the library allowed and provided offline access tokens, but for some reason, the functionality was removed (From reading the project's code history, I believe this functionality was removed unintentionally).

[Heatmanofurioso]

@Elashi Can you indicate on which or commit that support was removed, please?

[Elashi]

In this commit and before 6aebc469fc69b0a1166c4ed148195d12a9f0ddc7 The code used to pass offline option to access_type, which forces Google APIs to return a refresh token along with the access token. This refresh token can be passed to the server to allow the server to refresh the token when needed instead of having to count on the front end to refresh the token. I did not check whether the code used to return the refresh token back to the user or not, but the options are passed correctly.

[Heatmanofurioso]

We can add that back as an optional parameter perhaps. What are your thoughts on doing so? @Elashi

[brianl168]

is there any news about this? i need these offline token too

[ted-mundy]

any update on this?

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